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 Rhizobiales Kuykendall 2006 Family Hyphomicrobiaceae Babudieri 1950 (Approved Lists 1980) Genus Prosthecomicrobium Staley 1968 (Approved Lists 1980) Prosthecomicrobium hirschii Staley 1984