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 Fibrobacteres-Chlorobi-Bacteroidetes (FCB) Gupta 2004
               Phylum Bacteroidetes Krieg et al. 2012
                 Class Bacteroidiaᵀ Krieg 2012 [monotypic]
                   Order Bacteroidalesᵀ Krieg 2012
                     Family Bacteroidaceaeᵀ Pribram 1933 (Approved Lists 1980)
                       Genus Bacteroidesᵀ Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)
                         Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (Distaso 1912) Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)