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?]
             Phylum Fusobacteria Garrity and Holt 2012 [monotypic]
               Class Fusobacteriiaᵀ Staley and Whitman 2012 [monotypic]
                 Order Fusobacterialesᵀ Staley and Whitman 2012
                   Family Fusobacteriaceaeᵀ Staley and Whitman 2012
                     Genus Fusobacteriumᵀ Knorr 1922 (Approved Lists 1980)
                       Fusobacterium necrophorum (Flügge 1886) Moore and Holdeman 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)
                         1 Fusobacterium necrophorum subsp. funduliforme (ex Hallé 1898) Shinjo et al. 1991
                         2 Fusobacterium necrophorum subsp. necrophorumᵀ (Flügge 1886) Shinjo et al. 1991