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 "Betaproteobacteria" Garrity et al., 2006 [monotypic]
                 Class Betaproteobacteriaᵀ Garrity et al. 2006
                   Order Neisseriales Tønjum 2006
                     Family Neisseriaceaeᵀ Prévot 1933 (Approved Lists 1980)
                       Genus Neisseriaᵀ Trevisan 1885 (Approved Lists 1980)
                         Neisseria meningitidis (Albrecht and Ghon 1901) Murray 1929 (Approved Lists 1980)