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]
           Clade neomura Cavalier-Smith, 1987
             Domain Archaea Woese et al. 2024 [paraphyletic]
               Kingdom Thermoproteati Guy and Ettema 2024
                 Phylum Thermoproteotaᵀ Garrity and Holt 2021
                   Class Thermoproteiᵀ Reysenbach 2002
                     Order Thermoprotealesᵀ Zillig and Stetter 1982
                       Family Thermoproteaceaeᵀ Zillig and Stetter 1982
                         1 Genus Caldivirga Itoh et al. 1999 [monotypic]
                         2 Genus Pyrobaculum Huber et al. 1988
                         3 Genus Thermocladium Itoh et al. 1998 [monotypic]
                         4 Genus Thermoproteusᵀ Zillig and Stetter 1982
                         5 Genus Vulcanisaeta Itoh et al. 2002