Taxonomic disambiguation is complicated. One must determine specific traits and items on and of a life form or organism. The difficulty is large, but the amount of actual classifications is also equally large, and growing.
Taxonomic disambiguation goes along the lines of Kingdoms, to Phylums, to subphylums, to classes, to order, to family, to genus and finally to species. Along that large table, we have different types of lifeforms, fitting into multiple or singular categories. Hundreds of thousands of organisms, extinct or not, live somewhere among this table. It's our job to find out where.
To find our newest organism, go to kingdom Eubacteria, Phylum Proteobacteria, Subphylum none, Class betaproteobacteria, Order Nitrosomonadales, Family Spirillaceae, Genus Spirillum, and species Volutans.
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The Disambiguation
Kingdoms
Kingdoms are the broadest classification an organism can have. Each category within it have a broad overview of every other organism ever classified. Historically, kingdom is the highest taxonomic rank, or the most general taxon used in classifying organisms. However, in the new three-domain system introduced by Carl Woese in 1990, the domain is the most general taxon, and kingdom is only next. The five-kingdom taxonomic classification of the world's biota into Kingdom Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, and Monera as proposed by Robert Whittaker in 1969 has become a popular standard of classifying organisms. It became the basis for newer multi-kingdom systems such as the six-kingdom system of Carl Woese and colleagues in 1977. Later in the 20th and then 21st centuries, a six kingdom process became used, as detailed above.