| 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 | Mollusca Cuvier, 1795 - mollusks |
| subphylum | Conchifera Gegenbaur, 1878 - shell-bearers |
| superclassis | Diasoma |
| class | Bivalvia Linnaeus, 1758 - bivalves |
| subclass | Heterodonta Neumayr, 1883 |
| order | Veneroidea H. & A. Adams, 1856 |
| superfamily | Veneroidea Rafinesque, 1815 |
| family | Veneridae Rafinesque, 1815 - venus clams |
| subfamily | Tapetinae |
| genus | Tapes Megerle, 1811 - carpet-shell |
| species | Tapes turgida J. B. Lamarck, 1818 |