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 "Gammaproteobacteria" Garrity et al., 2005 [monotypic]
                 Class Gammaproteobacteriaᵀ Garrity et al. 2005
                   Order Lysobacterales Christensen and Cook 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
                     Family Lysobacteraceaeᵀ Christensen and Cook 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
                       Genus Stenotrophomonas Palleroni and Bradbury 1993
                         Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (Hugh 1981) Palleroni and Bradbury 1993