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 |
| family | Cyanophoraceae Kies et Kramer |
| genus | Cyanophora O.A. Korshikov |
| species | Cyanophora tetracyanea Korshikov |