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 Actinomycetota Goodfellow 2021
                 Class Actinomycetesᵀ Krassilnikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
                   Order Propionibacteriales (Rainey et al. 1997) Patrick and McDowell 2015
                     Family Propionibacteriaceaeᵀ Delwiche 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)
                       Genus Propionibacteriumᵀ Orla-Jensen 1909 (Approved Lists 1980)
                         Propionibacterium freudenreichii van Niel 1928 (Approved Lists 1980)
                           Propionibacterium freudenreichii subsp. shermanii (van Niel 1928) Holdeman and Moore 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)