Listeria riparia is a species of bacteria.

It is a Gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic, non-motile, non-spore-forming bacillus.

Its name refers to the riparian zone, and its discovery was first published in 2014.

[1] Listeria riparia "(c)an be differentiated from other non-motile species of the genus Listeria by a combination of α-mannosidase activity and the ability to acidify L-rhamnose, D-galactose and L-arabinose."

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