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 | Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 - bilaterians |
| subdivisio | Protostomia Grobben, 1908 - protostomes |
| phylum | Arthropoda Gravenhorst, 1843 - arthropods |
| subphylum | Crustacea Brünnich, 1772 - crustaceans |
| class | Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 |
| subclass | Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892 |
| superorder | Eucarida Calman, 1904 |
| order | Euphausiacea Dana, 1852 |
| family | Euphausiidae Dana, 1852 |
| genus | Thysanoessa Brandt, 1851 |