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 "Proteobacteria" Craig et al. 2010
               Phylum "Alphaproteobacteria" Garrity et al., 2006 [monotypic]
                 Class Alphaproteobacteriaᵀ Garrity et al. 2006
                   Order Rhizobiales Kuykendall 2006
                     Family Rhodobiaceae Garrity et al. 2006
                       Genus Rhodobiumᵀ Hiraishi et al. 1995
                         1 Rhodobium gokarnense Srinivas et al. 2007
                         2 Rhodobium orientis Hiraishi et al. 1995
                         n1 [Rhodobium marinum (Imhoff 1984) Hiraishi et al. 1995] see Afifella marina (Imhoff 1984) Urdiain et al. 2009
                         n2 [Rhodobium pfennigii Caumette et al. 2007] see Afifella pfennigii (Caumette et al. 2007) Urdiain et al. 2009