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 |
| phylum | Heterokontophyta |
| subphylum | Diatomeae (Dumortier, 1821) Cavalier-Smith, 1995 - diatoms |
| class | Bacillariophyceae Haeckel, 1878 |
| subclass | Eunotiophyceae Mann, 1990 |
| order | Eunotiales Silva, 1962 |
| family | Eunotiaceae Kützing, 1844 |
| genus | Eunotia C.G. Ehrenberg, 1837 |
| species | Eunotia praerupta Ehrenb., 1843 |