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?]
             Phylum "Deltaproteobacteria" Kuever et al., 2006 [polyphyletic]
               Class Deltaproteobacteriaᵀ Kuever et al. 2006
                 Order Desulfovibrionales 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