sp. nov., isolated from the faecal material of an alpaca.

A strictly anaerobic, Gram-stain-negative rod-shaped bacterium, designated A1-XYC3, was isolated from the faeces of an alpaca (). On the basis of the results of a comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, the isolate was assigned to the genus with the highest sequence similarities to DSM 2767 (96.8 %), P7 (96.

Bacteroides vicugnae sp. nov. isolated from the fecal material of an alpaca.

Two strictly anaerobic, Gram-stain-negative rod-shaped bacterial isolates, A2-P53 and A1-P5, were isolated from an enrichment of fecal material from two alpacas (Vicugna pacos). Based on a comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, the isolates were assigned to the genus Bacteroides with the highest sequence similarities to Bacteroides koreensis YS-aM39T (A2- P53T 97.7 % and A1-P5 97.