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 Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
                   Order Rhodospirillales Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)
                     Family Acetobacteraceae (ex Henrici 1939) Gillis and De Ley 1980
                       Genus Gluconobacter Asai 1935 (Approved Lists 1980)
                         Gluconobacter oxydans (Henneberg 1897) De Ley 1961 (Approved Lists 1980)
                           Gluconobacter oxydans subsp. melanogenes (Beijerinck 1911) De Ley and Frateur 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)