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 | Fungi Whittaker - fungi |
| divisio | Basidiomycota R. T. Moore - club fungi |
| subphylum | Agaricomycotina Doweld |
| class | Agaricomycetes |
| subclass | Agaricomycetidae |
| order | Agaricales Underw. - shelf fungi |
| family | Pluteaceae Kotl. & Pouzar - pink spores and worm eaters |
| genus | Pluteus Fr. |
| species | Pluteus cervinus (Schaeff.) P. Kumm. - Deer Shield |
| varietas | Pluteus cervinus var. cervinus |