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 Cyanobacteria Garcia-Pichel et al. (2020)] see Phylum Cyanobacteriota Oren et al. 2022
                 [Class Cyanophyceae Hauck (1885)] see Class Chroococcophyceae Hollerbach et al. 1953
                   [Order Chroococcales Ardissone (1887)] see Order Chroococcales corrig. Ardissone 1887
                     [Synechococcus-group]
                       [Genus "Prochlorococcus" Chisholm et al. 1992 nom. inval.] see Genus Prochlorococcus Chisholm et al. 2001 nom. inval.
                         ["Prochlorococcus marinus"ᵀ Chisholm et al. 1992] see Prochlorococcus marinus Chisholm et al. 2001
                           1 [Prochlorococcus marinus subsp. marinusᵀ Chisholm et al. 1992] see Prochlorococcus marinus subsp. marinus (Chisholm et al. 2001) Rippka et al. 2001
                           2 [Prochlorococcus marinus subsp. pastoris Rippka et al. 2000] see Prochlorococcus marinus subsp. pastoris Rippka et al. 2001