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 Pseudomonadati (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Oren and Göker 2024
               Phylum Pseudomonadotaᵀ Garrity et al. 2021
                 Class Gammaproteobacteriaᵀ Garrity et al. 2005
                   Order Lysobacterales Christensen and Cook 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
                     Family Lysobacteraceaeᵀ Christensen and Cook 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
                       Genus Xanthomonas Dowson 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)
                         Xanthomonas citri (ex Hasse 1915) Gabriel et al. 1989
                           Xanthomonas citri subsp. malvacearum (ex Smith 1901) Schaad et al. 2007