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 Sphingomonadales Yabuuchi and Kosako 2006
                     Family Sphingomonadaceaeᵀ Kosako et al. 2000
                       Genus Zymomonas Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) [monotypic]
                         Zymomonas mobilisᵀ (Lindner 1928) Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)
                           Zymomonas mobilis subsp. pomaceae (Millis 1956) De Ley and Swings 1976 (Approved Lists 1980)