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. 2024
             Kingdom Bacillatiᵀ (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Oren and Göker 2024
               Phylum Actinomycetota Goodfellow 2021
                 Class Actinomycetesᵀ Krassilnikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
                   Order Micrococcales Prévot 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)
                     Family Microbacteriaceae Park et al. 1995
                       Genus Clavibacter Davis et al. 1984 [monotypic]
                         Clavibacter michiganensis corrig. (Smith 1910) Davis et al. 1984
                           Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus corrig. (Spieckermann and Kotthoff 1914) Davis et al. 1984