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 "Alphaproteobacteria" Garrity et al., 2006 [monotypic]
                 Class Alphaproteobacteriaᵀ Garrity et al. 2006
                   Order Rhizobiales Kuykendall 2006
                     Family Bradyrhizobiaceae Garrity et al. 2006
                       Genus Rhodopseudomonas Czurda and Maresch 1937 (Approved Lists 1980)
                         1 Rhodopseudomonas faecalis Zhang et al. 2002
                         2 Rhodopseudomonas julia Kompantseva 1993
                         3 Rhodopseudomonas palustrisᵀ (Molisch 1907) van Niel 1944 (Approved Lists 1980)
                         4 Rhodopseudomonas rhenobacensis Hougardy et al. 2000