| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Unikonta |
| system | Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987 |
| kingdom | Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals |
| subregnum | Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910 |
| divisio | Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 |
| subdivisio | Deuterostomia - deuterostomes |
| phylum | Echinodermata Klein, 1734 - Echinoderms |
| subphylum | Eleutherozoa |
| class | Asteroidea |
| order | Forcipulatida |
| family | Asteriidae |
| genus | Pisaster |