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 Caulobacterales Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980)
                     Family Hyphomonadaceae Lee et al. 2005
                       Genus Hyphomonasᵀ (ex Pongratz 1957) Moore et al. 1984
                         Hyphomonas neptunium (Leifson 1964) Moore et al. 1984