Natura - nature
   actualia - actual entities
     Mundus Plinius - physical world
       naturalia - natural bodies
         [crown] Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
           Domain Bacteria Woese et al. 1990 [paraphyletic?]
             Superphylum Terrabacteria Battistuzzi et al. 2004
               Phylum Firmicutes corrig. Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
                 Class Clostridia Rainey 2010
                   Order Thermoanaerobacterales Wiegel 2010
                     Family Thermodesulfobiaceae Mori et al. 2004
                       1 Genus Coprothermobacter Rainey and Stackebrandt 1993
                       2 Genus Thermodesulfobiumᵀ Mori et al. 2004 [monotypic]