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 "Gammaproteobacteria" Garrity et al., 2005 [monotypic]
                 Class Gammaproteobacteriaᵀ Garrity et al. 2005
                   Order Chromatiales Imhoff 2005
                     Family Chromatiaceae Bavendamm 1924 (Approved Lists 1980)
                       Genus Marichromatium Imhoff et al. 1998
                         1 Marichromatium bheemlicum Anil Kumar et al. 2007
                         2 Marichromatium gracile (Strzeszewski 1913) Imhoff et al. 1998
                         3 Marichromatium indicum Arunasri et al. 2005
                         4 Marichromatium purpuratum (Imhoff and Trüper 1980) Imhoff et al. 1998