living organisms see Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
Status: extant
   Superkingdom Eukaryotae see Domain Eukaryota Chatton, 1925
  Status: extant
     Kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
    Status: extant
       Subkingdom Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910 see [unranked] Eumetazoa Bütschli, 1910
      Status: extant
         Phylum Arthropoda Siebold, 1848 - arthropods
        Status: extant
           Subphylum Chelicerata Heymons, 1901
          Status: extant
             Class Arachnida Lamarck, 1801
            Status: extant
               Subclass Acari Leach, 1817 - mites and ticks
              Status: extant
                 Order Acariformes Zakhvatkin, 1952 see Superorder Acariformes Zakhvatkin, 1952
                Status: extant
                   Suborder Prostigmata Kramer, 1877
                  Status: extant
                     Cohort Endeostigmata Grandjean, 1937 see Suborder Endeostigmata Grandjean, 1937
                    Status: extant
                       ?Family Sphaerolichidae Grandjean, 1939
                      Status: extant
                         Genus Sphaerolichus Berlese, 1904
                        Status: extant