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 Firmicutes corrig. Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
                 Class Clostridia Rainey 2010
                   Order Clostridialesᵀ Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
                     Family Peptococcaceae Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)
                       Genus Desulfosporosinus Stackebrandt et al. 1997
                         1 Desulfosporosinus orientisᵀ (Campbell and Postgate 1965) Stackebrandt et al. 1997
                         2 Desulfosporosinus acidiphilus Alazard et al. 2012
                         3 Desulfosporosinus auripigmenti corrig. (Newman et al. 2000) Stackebrandt et al. 2003
                         4 Desulfosporosinus burensis Mayeux et al. 2013
                         5 Desulfosporosinus hippei Vatsurina et al. 2008
                         6 Desulfosporosinus lacus Ramamoorthy et al. 2006
                         7 Desulfosporosinus meridiei Robertson et al. 2001
                         8 Desulfosporosinus youngiae Lee et al. 2009