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 Terrabacteria Battistuzzi et al. 2004
               Phylum "Actinobacteria" Garrity and Holt 2001
                 Class Actinobacteriaᵀ Stackebrandt et al. 1997
                   Order Actinomycetalesᵀ Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)
                     Suborder Corynebacterineae Stackebrandt et al. 1997
                       Family Mycobacteriaceae Chester 1897 (Approved Lists 1980)
                         Genus Mycobacteriumᵀ Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980)
                           Mycobacterium abscessus (Moore and Frerichs 1953) Kusunoki and Ezaki 1992
                             Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. abscessusᵀ (Moore and Frerichs 1953) Leao et al. 2011