[organisms] see Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
   Domain Bacteria Woese et al. 1990
     Phylum "Proteobacteria" Garrity et al. 2005 see Superphylum Proteobacteria Craig et al. 2010
       Class Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
         Order Methylophilales Garrity et al. 2006
           Family Methylophilaceae Garrity et al. 2006
             Genus Methylophilus Jenkins et al. 1987
               1 Methylophilus methylotrophus Jenkins et al. 1987
               2 Methylophilus leisingeri corrig. Doronina and Trotsenko 2001