%0 Journal Article %A Debruyne, Lies %A On, Stephen L. W. %A De Brandt, Evie %A Vandamme, Peter %T Novel Campylobacter lari-like bacteria from humans and molluscs: description of Campylobacter peloridis sp. nov., Campylobacter lari subsp. concheus subsp. nov. and Campylobacter lari subsp. lari subsp. nov. %D 2009 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 59 %N 5 %P 1126-1132 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000851-0 %K UPTC, urease-producing thermophilic Campylobacter %K UPGMA, unweighted pair group method with arithmetic means %K AFLP, amplified fragment length polymorphism %I Microbiology Society, %X A polyphasic study was undertaken to clarify the taxonomic position of Campylobacter lari-like strains isolated from shellfish and humans. The diversity within the strain collection was initially screened by means of fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis and whole-cell protein electrophoresis, revealing the existence of two clusters distinct from C. lari and other Campylobacter species. The divergence of these clusters was confirmed by phenotypic analysis and by 16S rRNA and hsp60 gene sequence analysis. Phylogenetic analysis identified C. lari, Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter coli and Campylobacter insulaenigrae as the closest phylogenetic neighbours of both taxa. DNA–DNA hybridizations revealed that one cluster, comprising 10 strains, represented a novel Campylobacter species, for which the name Campylobacter peloridis sp. nov. is proposed, with 2314BVAT (=LMG 23910T =CCUG 55787T) as the type strain. The second cluster, comprising six strains, represents a novel subspecies within the species C. lari, for which the name Campylobacter lari subsp. concheus subsp. nov. is proposed, with 2897RT (=LMG 21009T =CCUG 55786T) as the type strain. The description of C. lari subsp. concheus has the effect of automatically creating the subspecies Campylobacter lari subsp. lari subsp. nov. (type strain LMG 8846T=NCTC 11352T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.000851-0