| 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 | Arthropoda - Arthropods |
| subphylum | Crustacea BrĂ¼nnich, 1772 - Crustaceans |
| class | Maxillopoda Dahl, 1956 |
| subclass | Copepoda Milne-Edwards, 1840 - copepods |
| superorder | Podoplea |
| order | Poecilostomatoida |
| family | Bradophilidae |
| genus | Bradophila Levinsen, 1878 |
| species | Bradophila pygmaea Levinsen, 1878 |