Filibacter tadaridae sp. nov., isolated from within a guano pile from a colony of Mexican free-tailed bats Tadarida brasiliensis.

A Gram-stain-positive, aerobic bacterium, TB-66, was isolated from a pile of bat guano in a cave of New Mexico, USA. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity comparisons, strain TB-66grouped together with Filibacter limicola showing a 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity of 98.5 % to the type strain.