Listeria floridensis is a species of bacteria. It is a Gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic, non-motile, non-spore-forming bacillus. It is non-pathongenic and non-hemolytic. The species was discovered in and named after Florida, and its discovery was first published in 2014.[1]

Listeria floridensis
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Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Bacilli
Order: Caryophanales
Family: Listeriaceae
Genus: Listeria
Species:
L. floridensis
Binomial name
Listeria floridensis
den Bakker et al. 2014

Listeria floridensis is the only non-motile member of genus Listeria that is unable to reduce nitrate.

References

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  1. ^ Henk C. den Bakker, Steven Warchocki, Emily M. Wright, Adam F. Allred, Christina Ahlstrom, Clyde S. Manuel, Matthew J. Stasiewicz, Angela Burrell, Sherry Roof, Laura K. Strawn, Esther Fortes, Kendra K. Nightingale, Daniel Kephart and Martin Wiedmann. Listeria floridensis sp. nov., Listeria aquatica sp. nov., Listeria cornellensis sp. nov., Listeria riparia sp. nov. and Listeria grandensis sp. nov., from agricultural and natural environments. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (2014), 64, 1882–1889.
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