Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| phylum | Rhodophyta Wettst - red algae |
| subphylum | Rhodophytina |
| class | Florideophyceae Cronquist |
| subclass | Corallinophycidae |
| order | Corallinales P.C. Silva & H.W. Johansen |
| family | Spongitaceae Kützing |
| genus | Neogoniolithon Setchell & L.R.Mason |
| species | Neogoniolithon brassica-florida (Harvey) Setchell & L.R.Mason |