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 Flavobacteriia Bernardet 2012 [monotypic]
                   Order Flavobacteriales Bernardet 2012
                     Family Flavobacteriaceaeᵀ Reichenbach et al. 1992
                       Genus Empedobacter (ex Prévot 1961) Vandamme et al. 1994
                         1 Empedobacter brevisᵀ (Holmes and Owen 1982) Vandamme et al. 1994
                         2 Empedobacter falsenii (Kämpfer et al. 2006) Zhang et al. 2014