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?]
             Phylum Aquificae Reysenbach 2001 [monotypic]
               Class Aquificaeᵀ Reysenbach 2002
                 Order Aquificalesᵀ Reysenbach 2002
                   Family Hydrogenothermaceae Eder and Huber 2003
                     Genus Persephonella Götz et al. 2002
                       1 Persephonella guaymasensis Götz et al. 2002
                       2 Persephonella marina Götz et al. 2002
                       3 Persephonella hydrogeniphila Nakagawa et al. 2003