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 | Synechococcophycideae |
| order | Synechococcales |
| family | Synechococcaceae Komárek & Anagnostidis |
| subfamily | Synechococcoideae Komárek & K.T. Anagnostidis, 1986 |
| genus | Synechococcus Nägeli, 1849 |
| species | Synechococcus mucicolus A.M.T. Joosten |