| 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 | Protostomia Grobben, 1908 - protostomes |
| phylum | Acanthocephala - spiny-headed worms |
| class | Eoacanthocephala Cleve, 1936 |
| order | Gyracanthocephala |
| family | Quadrigyridae |
| subfamily | Pallisentinae Van Cleve, 1928 |
| genus | Acanthogyrus Thapar, 1927 |
| species | Acanthogyrus lizae Orecchia, Paggi & Radujkovic, 1988 |