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 Terrabacteria Battistuzzi et al. 2004
               Phylum Firmicutes corrig. Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
                 Class Bacilli Ludwig et al. 2010
                   Order Lactobacillales Ludwig et al. 2010
                     Family Enterococcaceae Ludwig et al. 2010
                       1 Genus Enterococcusᵀ (ex Thiercelin and Jouhaud 1903) Schleifer and Kilpper-Bälz 1984
                       2 Genus Bavariicoccus Schmidt et al. 2009 [monotypic]
                       3 Genus Catellicoccus Lawson et al. 2006 [monotypic]
                       4 Genus Melissococcus Bailey and Collins 1983 [monotypic]
                       5 Genus Pilibacter Higashiguchi et al. 2006 [monotypic]
                       6 Genus Tetragenococcus Collins et al. 1993
                       7 Genus Vagococcus Collins et al. 1990