Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel - plants |
| divisio | Charophyta E.Möhn |
| class | Chlorokybophyceae K. Bremer |
| order | Chlorokybales C.E. Rogers, K.R. Mattox & K.D. Stewart |
| family | Chlorokybaceae C.E.Rogers, K.R.Mattox & K.D.Stewart |
| genus | Chlorokybus Geitler |
| species | Chlorokybus atmophyticus Geitler |