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 Cytophagia Nakagawa 2012 [monotypic]
                   Order Cytophagalesᵀ Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
                     Family Cytophagaceaeᵀ Stanier 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)
                       Genus Pontibacter Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005
                         01 Pontibacter actiniarumᵀ Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005
                         02 Pontibacter akesuensis Zhou et al. 2007
                         03 Pontibacter korlensis Zhang et al. 2008
                         04 Pontibacter niistensis Dastager et al. 2010
                         05 Pontibacter roseus (Suresh et al. 2006) Wang et al. 2010
                         06 Pontibacter xinjiangensis Wang et al. 2010
                         07 Pontibacter populi Xu et al. 2012
                         08 Pontibacter lucknowensis Dwivedi et al. 2013
                         09 Pontibacter odishensis Subhash et al. 2013
                         10 Pontibacter ramchanderi Singh et al. 2013
                         11 Pontibacter saemangeumensis Kang et al. 2013
                         12 Pontibacter toksunensis Zhang et al. 2013
                         13 Pontibacter deserti Subhash et al. 2014
                         14 Pontibacter ruber Subhash et al. 2014
                         15 Pontibacter diazotrophicus Xu et al. 2014
                         16 Pontibacter indicus Singh et al. 2014
                         17 Pontibacter soli Dai et al. 2014
                         18 Pontibacter yuliensis Cao et al. 2014
                         19 Pontibacter humi Srinivasan et al. 2015