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 Myxococcales Tchan et al. 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)
                   Suborder Cystobacterineae Reichenbach 2007
                     Family Myxococcaceae Jahn 1924 (Approved Lists 1980)
                       Genus Aggregicoccus Sood et al. 2015
                       1 Genus Myxococcusᵀ Thaxter 1892 (Approved Lists 1980)
                       2 Genus Corallococcus Reichenbach 2007
                       3 Genus Pyxidicoccus corrig. Reichenbach 2007 [monotypic]