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)
                         Rhodopseudomonas palustrisᵀ (Molisch 1907) van Niel 1944 (Approved Lists 1980)