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 Chloroflexi Garrity and Holt 2001
                 Class Thermomicrobia Garrity and Holt 2002
                   Order Sphaerobacterales Stackebrandt et al. 1997 [monotypic]
                     Suborder "Sphaerobacterineae"ᵀ Garrity et al., 2003 [monotypic]
                       Family Sphaerobacteraceaeᵀ Stackebrandt et al. 1997
                         1 Genus Sphaerobacterᵀ Demharter et al. 1989 [monotypic]
                         2 Genus Nitrolancea Sorokin et al. 2014 [monotypic]