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 Rhodobacterales Garrity et al. 2006 [monotypic]
                     Family Rhodobacteraceaeᵀ Garrity et al. 2006
                       Genus Rhodobacterᵀ Imhoff et al. 1984
                         Rhodobacter blasticus corrig. (Eckersley and Dow 1981) Kawasaki et al. 1994