Macrostylidae Hansen, 1916

Desmosomidae Sars, 1899

Macrostylini Hansen, 1916, p. 74; Wolff, 1956, p. 99

Macrostylinae Birstein, 1973

Macrostylidae Gurjanova, 1933, p. 411; Menzies, 1962, p. 28, p. 127; Wolff, 1962; Birstein, 1970; Menzies and George, 1972, p. 79–81; Mezhov, 1988, p. 983–994; 1992, p. 69; Brandt, 1992; 2002; 2004; Kussakin, 1999, p. 336; Riehl and Brandt, 2010

Type genus. Macrostylis Sars, 1864