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]
           Clade neomura Cavalier-Smith, 1987
             Domain Archaea Woese et al. 2024 [paraphyletic]
               Kingdom Methanobacteriati (Garrity and Holt 2023) Oren and Göker 2024
                 Phylum Methanobacteriotaᵀ Garrity and Holt 2023
                   Class Methanosarcinia Chuvochina et al. 2024
                     Order Methanosarcinalesᵀ Boone et al. 2002
                       Family Methanosarcinaceaeᵀ Balch and Wolfe 1981
                         Genus Methanolobus König and Stetter 1983
                           Methanolobus taylorii Oremland and Boone 1994