prokaryotes - bacteria see Domain Bacteria Woese et al. 1990
   Domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990
     01 Phylum "Acidobacteria" Thrash and Coates 2012
     02 Phylum "Actinobacteria" Garrity and Holt 2001
     03 Phylum "Aquificae" Reysenbach 2001 [monotypic]
     04 Phylum "Armatimonadetes" Tamaki et al. 2011
     05 Phylum "Bacteroidetes" Krieg et al. 2012
     06 Phylum "Caldiserica" Mori et al. 2009 [monotypic]
     07 Phylum "Chlamydiae" Garrity and Holt 2012 [monotypic]
     08 Phylum "Chlorobi" Iino et al. 2010
     09 Phylum "Chloroflexi" Garrity and Holt 2001
     10 Phylum "Chrysiogenetes" Garrity and Holt 2001 [monotypic]
     11 Phylum "Cyanobacteria" (ex Stanier 1974) Cavalier-Smith 2002 - cyanobacteria
     12 Phylum "Deferribacteres" Garrity and Holt 2001 [monotypic]
     13 Phylum "Deinococcus-Thermus" [monotypic]
     14 Phylum "Dictyoglomi" Patel 2012 [monotypic]
     15 Phylum "Elusimicrobia" Geissinger et al. 2010 [monotypic]
     16 Phylum "Fibrobacteres" Garrity and Holt 2012
     17 Phylum "Firmicutes" corrig. Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
     18 Phylum "Fusobacteria" Garrity and Holt 2012 [monotypic]
     19 Phylum "Gemmatimonadetes" Zhang et al. 2003 [monotypic]
     20 Phylum "Lentisphaerae" Cho et al. 2004
     21 Phylum "Nitrospira" Garrity & Holt, 2001 [monotypic] see Phylum Nitrospirae Garrity and Holt 2001
     22 Phylum "Planctomycetes" Garrity and Holt 2001
     23 Phylum "Proteobacteria" Garrity et al. 2005 see Superphylum Proteobacteria Craig et al. 2010
     24 Phylum "Spirochaetes" Garrity and Holt 2001 [monotypic]
     25 Phylum "Synergistetes" Jumas-Bilak et al. 2009 [monotypic]
     26 Phylum "Tenericutes" Murray 1984 [monotypic] see Phylum Firmicutes corrig. Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
     27 Phylum "Thermodesulfobacteria" Garrity and Holt 2001 [monotypic] see Phylum Deltaproteobacteria Kuever et al., 2006
     28 Phylum "Thermotogae" Reysenbach 2001 [monotypic]
     29 Phylum "Verrucomicrobia" Hedlund 2011
     30 Genus Bactoderma Tepper and Korshunova 1973 (Approved Lists 1980), incertae sedis
     31 Genus Stibiobacter Lyalikova 1974 (Approved Lists 1980), incertae sedis