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 "Spirochaetes" Garrity and Holt 2001 [monotypic]
               Class Spirochaetesᵀ Cavalier-Smith 2002 [monotypic]
                 Order Spirochaetalesᵀ Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980), sedis mutabilis
                   Family Spirochaetaceaeᵀ Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980)
                     Genus Spirochaetaᵀ Ehrenberg 1835 (Approved Lists 1980)
                       Spirochaeta aurantia (ex Vinzent 1926) Canale-Parola 1980
                         Spirochaeta aurantia subsp. aurantiaᵀ (Canale-Parola 1980) Canale-Parola 1984