kingdom: Animalia >
phylum: Chordata >
subphylum: Vertebrata >
infraphylum: Gnathostomata >
parvphylum: Osteichthyes >
megaclass: Tetrapoda >
class: Aves >
order: Passeriformes >
family: Cinclidae Sundevall, 1836 >
genus: Cinclus Borkhausen, 1797 >
species: Cinclus cinclus (Linnaeus, 1758) >