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 | Radiata Linnaeus, 1758 |
| phylum | Cnidaria Hatschek, 1888 - anemones, corals and jellyfish |
| class | Anthozoa Ehrenberg, 1834 |
| subclass | Octocorallia Haeckel, 1866 - gorgonians |
| order | Malacalcyonacea McFadden, van Ofwegen & Quattrini, 2022 - true soft corals |
| family | Sarcophytidae Gray, 1869 |
| genus | Sarcophyton Lesson, 1834 - sarcophyton coral |
| species | Sarcophyton cornispiculatum Verseveldt, 1971 |