Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel - plants |
| divisio | Charophyta E.Möhn |
| class | Charophyceae Rabenhorst |
| order | Charales |
| family | Characeae |
| genus | Tolypella (A. Braun) A. Braun |
| species | Tolypella normaniana C.F.O. Nordstedt |