Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Unikonta |
| system | Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987 |
| kingdom | Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals |
| subregnum | Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910 |
| divisio | Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 - bilaterians |
| subdivisio | Protostomia Grobben, 1908 - protostomes |
| phylum | Onychophora Grube, 1850 - Velvet Worms |
| order | Euonychophora Hutchinson, 1930 |
| family | Peripatidae Audouin & Milne-Edwards, 1832 |
| genus | Epiperipatus Clark, 1913 |
| species | Epiperipatus hyperbolicus Costa, Chagas-Júnior & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2018 |