Natura - nature
   actualia - actual entities
     Mundus Plinius - physical world
       naturalia - natural bodies
         Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
           Domain Bacteria Woese et al. 2024
             Kingdom Bacillatiᵀ (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Oren and Göker 2024
               Phylum Actinomycetota Goodfellow 2021
                 Class Actinomycetesᵀ Krassilnikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
                   Order Micrococcales Prévot 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)
                     Family Micrococcaceaeᵀ Pribram 1929 (Approved Lists 1980)
                       Genus Micrococcusᵀ Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)
                         01 Micrococcus luteusᵀ (Schroeter 1872) Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)
                         02 Micrococcus aloeverae Prakash et al. 2014
                         03 Micrococcus antarcticus Liu et al. 2000
                         04 Micrococcus cohnii Rieser et al. 2013
                         05 Micrococcus endophyticus Chen et al. 2009
                         06 Micrococcus flavus Liu et al. 2007
                         07 Micrococcus lactis Chittpurna et al. 2011
                         08 Micrococcus lylae Kloos et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
                         09 Micrococcus terreus Zhang et al. 2010
                         10 Micrococcus yunnanensis Zhao et al. 2009