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 Myxococcales Tchan et al. 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)
                   Suborder Sorangiineae corrig. Reichenbach 2007
                     Family Polyangiaceaeᵀ Jahn 1924 (Approved Lists 1980)
                       Genus Polyangiumᵀ Link 1809 (Approved Lists 1980)
                         Polyangium aureum (ex Krzemieniewska and Krzemieniewski 1930) Brockman 1989