Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Bacteria (Haeckel, 1894) Woese, Kandler Wheelis, 1990 - bacterians |
| phylum | Cyanobacteria Stanier ex Cavalier-Smith, 2002 - blue-green algae |
| class | Cyanophyceae Schaffner, 1909 |
| subclass | Oscillatoriophycidae |
| order | Spirulinales Komárek, Kaštovský, Mareš & J.R.Johansen |
| family | Spirulinaceae (Gomont) L.Hoffmann, J.Komárek & J.Ka |
| genus | Glaucospira Lagerheim, 1892 |
| species | Glaucospira yellowstonensis Copeland, 1936 |