sp. nov., isolated from faeces of Formosan barking deer ().

A Gram-stain-positive strain, 8 H-2, was isolated from faeces of Reeves' muntjac () barking deer in Taiwan. Cells of the strain were short rod-shaped, non-motile, non-haemolytic, asporogenous, facultatively anaerobic, heterofermentative and did not exhibit catalase and oxidase activities. Comparative analyses of 16S rRNA, and gene sequences demonstrated that the novel strain was a member of the genus .