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 | Nematoda Rudolphi, 1808 - nematodes |
| class | Secernentea |
| order | Spirurida Railliet, 1914 |
| suborder | Spirurina |
| superfamily | Spiruroidea |
| family | Gongylonematidae |
| genus | Gongylonema Molin, 1857 |
| species | Gongylonema neoplasticum (Fibiger & Ditlevsen, 1914) |