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 Archaea Woese et al. 2024 [paraphyletic]
               Kingdom Methanobacteriati (Garrity and Holt 2023) Oren and Göker 2024
                 Phylum Methanobacteriotaᵀ Garrity and Holt 2023
                   Class Thermoplasmata Reysenbach 2002
                     1 Order "Candidatus Aciduliprofundales" Rinke et al. 2021 nom. pro-inval. [monotypic]
                     2 Order "Candidatus Gimiplasmatales" Hu et al. 2022 [monotypic]
                     3 Order "Candidatus Lunaplasmatales" Zinke et al. 2021 nom. pro-inval. [monotypic]
                     4 Order Methanomassiliicoccales Iino et al. 2013
                     5 Order Thermoplasmatalesᵀ Reysenbach 2002