Natura - nature
   actualia - actual entities
     Mundus Plinius - physical world
       naturalia - natural bodies
         [crown] Clade Biota J.R. Wagner, 2004 [J. Wiemann et al., 2020]
           Domain Bacteria (Haeckel, 1894) C.R. Woese et al., 1990 [paraphyletic?]
             Superphylum "Proteobacteria" J.W. Craig et al., 2010
               Phylum "Alphaproteobacteria" Garrity et al., 2006 [monotypic]
                 Class Alphaproteobacteriaᵀ Garrity et al., 2006
                   Order Rhizobiales Kuykendall, 2006
                     Family Rhizobiaceaeᵀ Conn, 1938, nom. approb.
                       Genus Shinella An et al., 2006
                         Shinella kummerowiae Lin et al., 2008