kingdom: Animalia >
phylum: Nematoda >
class: Chromadorea Inglis, 1983 >
subclass: Chromadoria Pearse, 1942 >
order: Rhabditida Chitwood, 1933 >
suborder: Tylenchina (Chitwood, 1950) >
infraorder: Tylenchomorpha De Ley & Blaxter, 2002 >
superfamily: Criconematoidea Taylor, 1936 >
family: Tylenchulidae Skarbilovich, 1947 >
subfamily: Paratylenchinae Thorne, 1949 >
genus: Paratylenchus Micoletzky, 1922 >