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 | Tardigrada Spallanzani, 1777 - tardigrades |
| class | Eutardigrada Marcus, 1927 |
| order | Parachela Schuster, Nelson, Grigarick & Christenberry, 1980 |
| family | Hypsibiidae Pilato, 1969 |
| genus | Diphascon Plate, 1889 |