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]
          
 Clade neomura Cavalier-Smith, 1987
            
 Domain Eukaryota Chatton, 1925 - eukaryotes
              
 Clade discaria Cavalier-Smith, 2021
                
 Clade natates Cavalier-Smith, 2021
                  
 Clade photaria Cavalier-Smith, 2021
                    
 Clade eucorta Cavalier-Smith, 2021
                      
 Superkingdom Corticata Lankester, 1878 - corticates
                        
 Kingdom Plantae Haeckel (1866) - plants
                          
 Subkingdom Viridiplantae Caval.-Sm. (1981) - green plants
                            
 Phylum Chlorophyta Pascher (1914) [coordinate rank] - green algae
                              
 "core chlorophytes"
                                
 Class Chlorophyceae Wille (1884) - chlorophytes
                                  
 Order Chlamydomonadales F.E. Fritsch
                                    
 Family Volvocaceae Ehrenb. (1834)
                                      
 Genus Volvoxᵀ L. (1758)
                                        
 Volvox carteri F. Stein
                                          
 Volvox carteri f. hazenii (J. Metzner) H. Nozaki
                                          
 Volvox carteri f. iyengarii K. Vani Manohar & R.J. Patel
                                          
 Volvox carteri f. kawasakiensis H. Nozaki
                                          
 Volvox carteri f. nagariensis
                                          
 Volvox carteri f. weismannia
                                          
 Volvox carteri var. hazenii J. Metzner