Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| phylum | Glaucophyta Skuja |
| class | Glaucocystophyceae Schaffner |
| order | Cyanophorales Kies et Kramer |
| Cyanophorales incertae sedis | |
| genus | Peliaina A. Pascher |