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?]
             Phylum "Deltaproteobacteria" Kuever et al., 2006 [polyphyletic]
               Class Deltaproteobacteriaᵀ Kuever et al. 2006
                 Order Desulfovibrionales 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)
                         Desulfovibrio africanus subsp. africanusᵀ (Campbell et al. 1966) Castañeda-Carrión et al. 2010