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 Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
                   Order Burkholderialesᵀ Garrity et al. 2006
                     Family Sphaerotilaceae Liu et al. 2023
                       Genus Leptothrix Kützing 1843 (Approved Lists 1980)
                         Leptothrix ochraceaᵀ (Roth 1797) Kützing 1843 (Approved Lists 1980)