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 Pseudomonadati (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Oren and Göker 2024
               Phylum Thermodesulfobacteriota Garrity and Holt 2021
                 Class Desulfovibrionia Waite et al. 2020 [monotypic]
                   Order Desulfovibrionalesᵀ Kuever et al. 2006
                     Family Desulfovibrionaceaeᵀ Kuever et al. 2006
                       Genus Desulfovibrioᵀ Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)
                         Desulfovibrio africanus Campbell et al. 1966 (Approved Lists 1980)
                           1 Desulfovibrio africanus subsp. africanusᵀ (Campbell et al. 1966) Castañeda-Carrión et al. 2010
                           2 Desulfovibrio africanus subsp. uniflagellum Castañeda-Carrión et al. 2010