Natura - nature
   actualia - actual entities
     Mundus Plinius - physical world
       naturalia - natural bodies
         Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
           Domain Bacteria Woese et al. 2024
             Kingdom Bacillatiᵀ (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Oren and Göker 2024
               [Phylum Cyanobacteria Garcia-Pichel et al. (2020)] see Phylum Cyanobacteriota Oren et al. 2022
                 [Class Cyanophyceae Hauck (1885)] see Class Chroococcophyceae Hollerbach et al. 1953
                   [Order Oscillatoriales Schaffner (1922), sedis mutabilis] see Order Oscillatoriales Schaffner 1922
                     [Family Microcoleaceae Komárek, J. Kaštovský, J. Mareš & J.R.Johans. (2014), nom. illeg.] see Family Microcoleaceae (Hansgirg 1888) Strunecký et al. 2013
                       [Genus Microcoleusᵀ J.B.H.J. Desmazières ex Gomont (1892)] see Genus Microcoleus Desmazières ex Gomont 1892
                         Microcoleus chthonoplastes (Mertens) Zanardini ex Gomont 1892 [ICBN]
                         Microcoleus chtonoplastes
                         Microcoleus lacustris (Rabenh.) Farl. [ICBN]
                         Microcoleus paludosus (F.T. Kützing) ex Gomont 1892
                         Microcoleus repens W.H. Harvey 1841
                         Microcoleus tenerrimus Gomont 1892
                         Microcoleus vaginatus (Vaucher) Gomont