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In a continuing study of non-human mammals, dozens of strains were isolated from anaerobic guano-pile enrichments collected in a bat cave near Protem, MO, USA. Of these, two novel taxa were identified and designated BS-2\n                    <jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>\n                    and BS-20\n                    <jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>\n                    ; both were rod-shaped, Gram-stain-positive bacteria. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene and phylogenomic analysis placed BS-2\n                    <jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>\n                    within the genus\n                    <jats:italic>Lacrimispora<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and BS-20\n                    <jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>\n                    was located within the family\n                    <jats:italic>Jonesiaceae<\/jats:italic>\n                    , but with no particular affiliation to any genus. Overall genomic-based relatedness indices indicated that strains BS-2\n                    <jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>\n                    and BS-20\n                    <jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>\n                    shared average nucleotide identity and digital DNA\u2013DNA hybridization values &lt;95.0%\u2009and &lt;70.0% with their nearest neighbouring taxa, which are the currently accepted thresholds for species-level delineation. Further, for strain BS-20\n                    <jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>\n                    , genus-specific delineation indices demonstrated a shared average amino acid identity, and percentages of conserved proteins were &lt;68.0%\u2009and &lt;42.0%, respectively, between BS-20\n                    <jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>\n                    and other\n                    <jats:italic>Jonesiaceae<\/jats:italic>\n                    taxa, below commonly accepted genus-level delineation thresholds. The predominant cellular fatty acid of isolate BS-2\n                    <jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>\n                    was C\n                    <jats:sub>16:0<\/jats:sub>\n                    , whereas BS-20\n                    <jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>\n                    contained C\n                    <jats:sub>15:0<\/jats:sub>\n                    anteiso and C\n                    <jats:sub>14:0<\/jats:sub>\n                    as the predominant cellular fatty acids. The G+C content of BS-2\n                    <jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>\n                    and BS-20\n                    <jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>\n                    was 44.1 and 56.5 mol%, respectively. Based on biochemical, phylogenetic, genotypic and chemotaxonomic criteria, strains BS-2\n                    <jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>\n                    and BS-20\n                    <jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>\n                    represent novel isolates within the genus\n                    <jats:italic>Lacrimispora<\/jats:italic>\n                    and family\n                    <jats:italic>Jonesiaceae<\/jats:italic>\n                    , for which the names\n                    <jats:italic>Lacrimispora cavernae<\/jats:italic>\n                    sp. nov. and\n                    <jats:italic>Aleya cavernae<\/jats:italic>\n                    gen. nov., sp. nov. are proposed. 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