Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| kingdom | Chromalveolata Adl et al., 2005 |
| superphylum | Alveolata Cavalier-Smith, 1991 - alveolate |
| phylum | Dinozoa |
| infraphylum | Protalveolata Cavalier-Smith,1991 |
| class | Apicomonadea |
| order | Colpodellida Patterso & Zölffel, 1991 |
| family | Colpodellidae Simpson & Patterson, 1996 |
| subfamily | Acrocoelinae |
| genus | Acrocoelus Fernández, Pardos, Benito & Arroyo, 1999 |