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 | Rotifera Cuvier, 1817 - rotifers |
| class | Bdelloidea Hudson, 1884 |
| order | Philodinida Melone & Ricci, 1995 |
| family | Philodinidae Ehrenberg, 1838 |
| genus | Pleuretra Bryce, 1910 |
| species | Pleuretra costata (Bartoš, 1938) |