Lineage: Bacteria;Fusobacteria;Fusobacteriia;Fusobacteriales;Leptotrichiaceae;Pseudoleptotrichia

Overview: Bacteria of genus Pseudoleptotrichia are abundant in the healthy mouth, making up about 1% of the bacteria on the tongue, tonsils, and throat. The genus was split from Leptotrichia in 2020 (Eisenberg et al. 2020) and contains one named species, P. goodfellowii, and two unnamed taxa, HMT 219 and 221. Of these three taxa, HMT 221 is the most abundant in the mouth.

	eHOMD Taxonomy
Life	Cellular Organisms
Domain	Bacteria (773) Abundance
Phylum	Fusobacteria (37) Abundance
Class	Fusobacteriia (37) Abundance
Order	Fusobacteriales (37) Abundance
Family	Leptotrichiaceae (23) Abundance
Genus	Pseudoleptotrichia (3) Abundance
Species	Pseudoleptotrichia goodfellowii (HMT-845) Abundance        Pseudoleptotrichia sp._HMT_219 (HMT-219) Abundance        Pseudoleptotrichia sp._HMT_221 (HMT-221) Abundance