| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Bacteria (Haeckel, 1894) Woese, Kandler Wheelis, 1990 - bacterians |
| phylum | Actinobacteria Margulisová, 1974 |
| class | Actinobacteria Stackebrandt, Rainey & Ward-Rainey, 1997 |
| subclass | Actinobacteridae Stackebrandt et al., 1997 |
| order | Actinomycetales Buchanan, 1917 |
| suborder | Micrococcineae Stackebrandt et al., 1997 |
| family | Micrococcaceae Prévot, 1961 |
| genus | Micrococcus Cohn, 1872 |
| species | Micrococcus luteus Cohn, 1872 |