| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Bacteria (Haeckel, 1894) Woese, Kandler Wheelis, 1990 - bacterians |
| phylum | Bacteroidetes |
| class | Flavobacteria Cavalier-Smith, 2002 |
| order | Flavobacteriales |
| family | Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach, Staley, Bryant, Pfennig & Holt, 1992 |
| genus | Muricauda Bruns, Rohde & Berthe-Corti, 2001 |