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 Pseudomonadati (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Oren and Göker 2024
               Phylum Thermodesulfobacteriota Garrity and Holt 2021
                 Class Desulfovibrionia Waite et al. 2020 [monotypic]
                   Order Desulfovibrionalesᵀ Kuever et al. 2006
                     Family Desulfomicrobiaceae Kuever et al. 2006
                       Genus Desulfomicrobiumᵀ Rozanova et al. 1994
                         1 Desulfomicrobium apsheronum Rozanova et al. 1994
                         2 Desulfomicrobium baculatum corrig. (Rozanova and Nazina 1984) Rozanova et al. 1994
                         3 Desulfomicrobium escambiense corrig. Sharak Genthner et al. 1996
                         4 Desulfomicrobium macestii (Gogotova and Vainshtein 1989) Hippe et al. 2003
                         5 Desulfomicrobium norvegicum Genthner et al. 1997
                         6 Desulfomicrobium orale Langendijk et al. 2001
                         7 Desulfomicrobium thermophilum Thevenieau et al. 2007