Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Bacteria (Haeckel, 1894) Woese, Kandler Wheelis, 1990 - bacterians |
| phylum | Firmicutes |
| class | Bacilli Ludwig et al., 2010 |
| order | Bacillales Prévot, 1953 |
| family | Listeriaceae |
| genus | Brochothrix Sneath & Jones, 1976 |