Natura - nature
   actualia - actual entities
     Mundus Plinius - physical world
       naturalia - natural bodies
         Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
           Domain Bacteria Woese et al. 2024
             Kingdom Pseudomonadati (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Oren and Göker 2024
               Phylum Pseudomonadotaᵀ Garrity et al. 2021
                 Class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
                   Order Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)
                     Family Pleomorphomonadaceae Hördt et al. 2020
                       1 Genus Chthonobacter Kim et al. 2017
                       2 Genus Hartmannibacter Suarez et al. 2014 [monotypic]
                       3 Genus Methylobrevis Poroshina et al. 2015
                       4 Genus Mongoliimonas Xi et al. 2017
                       5 Genus Oharaeibacter Lv et al. 2017
                       6 Genus Oryzibacter Lee and Whang 2023
                       7 Genus Pleomorphomonasᵀ Xie and Yokota 2005