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Four strains of an obligately anaerobic spore-forming bacterium were isolated from soil samples from a donkey pasture in Pakistan. Comparative 16S rRNA sequence analysis demonstrated that the strains are members of phylogenetic cluster I of the genus (Collins et al. 1994). The strains are mesophilic, nonsaccharolytic, and nonproteolytic, utilize glutamate and histidine, and produce indole. Acetate, butyrate, ethanol, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide are the products of fermentation. Although the strains phenotypically resemble the classical glutamate-fermenting Clostridia, such as , and especially , they differ from these organisms in sugar utilization, cellular fatty acid composition, and cellular protein pattern and by a 16S rRNA sequence divergence value of approximately 4 to 8%. Phylogenetically, the strains are more closely related to (sequence divergence, approximately 5%) and (sequence divergence, approximately 5%) but are phenotypically readily distinguished from these species. On the basis of phenotypic and genotypic criteria, we conclude that the four strains are members of a new species of the genus , for which the name is proposed. The type strain is strain Cm19 (= DSM 10365).

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