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 Thermotogae Reysenbach 2001 [monotypic]
               Class Thermotogaeᵀ Reysenbach 2002 [monotypic]
                 Order Mesoaciditogales Itoh et al. 2016 [monotypic]
                   Family Mesoaciditogaceaeᵀ Itoh et al. 2016 [monotypic]
                     Genus Mesoaciditogaᵀ Reysenbach et al. 2013 [monotypic]
                       1 Mesoaciditoga lauensisᵀ Reysenbach et al. 2013