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 "Proteobacteria" Craig et al. 2010 Phylum "Alphaproteobacteria" Garrity et al., 2006 [monotypic] Class Alphaproteobacteriaᵀ Garrity et al. 2006 Order Rhodospirillales Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) Family Acetobacteraceae (ex Henrici 1939) Gillis and De Ley 1980 Genus Acetobacterᵀ Beijerinck 1898 (Approved Lists 1980) [Acetobacter xylinus corrig. (Brown 1886) Yamada 1984] see Komagataeibacter xylinus (Brown 1886) Yamada et al. 2013 1 [Acetobacter xylinus subsp. xylinusᵀ corrig. (Brown 1886) Toyosaki et al. 1996] see Gluconacetobacter xylinus corrig. (Brown 1886) Yamada et al. 1998 2 [Acetobacter xylinus subsp. sucrofermentans corrig. Toyosaki et al. 1996] see Komagataeibacter sucrofermentans (Toyosaki et al. 1996) Yamada et al. 2013