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. 1990 [paraphyletic?]
             Superphylum "Proteobacteria" Craig et al. 2010
               Phylum "Alphaproteobacteria" Garrity et al., 2006 [monotypic]
                 Class Alphaproteobacteriaᵀ Garrity et al. 2006
                   Order Rhodospirillales Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)
                     Family Acetobacteraceae (ex Henrici 1939) Gillis and De Ley 1980
                       Genus Acetobacterᵀ Beijerinck 1898 (Approved Lists 1980)
                         Acetobacter pasteurianus (Hansen 1879) Beijerinck and Folpmers 1916 (Approved Lists 1980)
                           [Acetobacter pasteurianus subsp. ascendens (Henneberg 1898) De Ley and Frateur 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)] see Acetobacter orleanensis (Henneberg 1906) Lisdiyanti et al. 2001
                           [Acetobacter pasteurianus subsp. estunensis (Carr 1958) De Ley and Frateur 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)] see Acetobacter estunensis (Carr 1958) Lisdiyanti et al. 2001
                           [Acetobacter pasteurianus subsp. lovaniensis (Frateur 1950) De Ley and Frateur 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)] see Acetobacter lovaniensis (Frateur 1950) Lisdiyanti et al. 2001
                           [Acetobacter pasteurianus subsp. paradoxus (Frateur 1950) De Ley and Frateur 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)] see Acetobacter orleanensis (Henneberg 1906) Lisdiyanti et al. 2001
                           [Acetobacter pasteurianus subsp. pasteurianusᵀ (Hansen 1879) De Ley and Frateur 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)] see Acetobacter pasteurianus (Hansen 1879) Beijerinck and Folpmers 1916 (Approved Lists 1980)