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 Leptospirales Gupta et al. 2014, sedis mutabilis [monotypic]
                   Family Leptospiraceaeᵀ Hovind-Hougen 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)
                     1.1 Genus Leptospiraᵀ Noguchi 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)
                     1.2 Genus Turneriella Levett et al. 2005 [monotypic]
                     2 Genus Leptonema Hovind-Hougen 1983 [monotypic]