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 | Glaucocystales Bessey |
| family | Glaucocystaceae Bohlin, 1901 ex G.S. West, 1904 |