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 Clostridiaceaeᵀ Pribram 1933 (Approved Lists 1980)
                       Genus Clostridiumᵀ Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980)
                         Clostridium stercorarium Madden 1983
                           Clostridium stercorarium subsp. stercorariumᵀ (Madden 1983) Fardeau et al. 2001