Subfamily Acuariinae Railliet, Henry & Sisoff, 1912
* ''Acuaria'' Bremser, 1811
* ''Cheilospirura'' Diesing, 1861
* ''Chevreuxia'' Seurat, 1918
* ''Chordatortilis'' Mendonça & Rodrigues, 1965
* ''Chordocephalus'' Alegret, 1941
* ''Cosmocephalus'' Molin, 1858
* ''Decorataria'' Sobolev, 1949 (sometimes included in ''Syncuaria'')
* ''Desportesius'' Chabaud & Campana, 1949
* ''Dispharynx'' Railliet, Henry & Sisoff, 1912 (sometimes included in ''Synhimantus'')
* ''Echinuria'' Soloviev, 1912
* ''Paracuaria'' Krishna Rao, 1951
* ''Pectinospirura'' Wehr, 1933
* ''Sexansocara'' Sobolev & Sudarikov, 1939
* ''Skrjabinocerca'' Shikhoblaova, 1930
* ''Skrjabinoclava'' Sobolev, 1943
* ''Stammerinema'' Osche, 1955
* ''Syncuaria'' Gilbert, 1927 (sometimes included in ''Echinuria'')
* ''Synhimantus'' Railliet, Henry & Sisoff, 1912
* ''Willmottia'' Mawson, 1982
* ''Xenocordon'' Mawson, 1982
Subfamily Schistorophinae Travassos, 1918
* ''Ancyracanthopsis'' Diesing, 1861
* ''Quasithelazia'' Maplestone, 1932 (sometimes included in ''Schistorophus'')
* ''Schistorophus'' Railliet, 1916
* ''Sciadiocara'' Skrjabin, 1916
* ''Viktorocara'' Guschanskaja, 1950
Subfamily Seuratiinae Chitwood & Wehr, 1932
* ''Aviculariella'' Wehr, 1931
* ''Ingliseria'' Gibson, 1968
* ''Proyseria'' Petter, 1959
* ''Pseudohaplonema'' Wang ''et al.'', 1978
* ''Rusguniella'' Seurat, 1919
* ''Seuratia'' Skrjabin, 1916
* ''Stegophorus'' Wehr, 1934
* ''Streptocara'' Railliet, Henry & Sisoff, 1912
''Incertae sedis''
* ''Antechiniella'' Quentin & Beveridge, 1986
* ''Chandleronema'' Little & Ali, 1980
* ''Cyclopsinema'' Cobb, 1927
* ''Deliria'' Vicente, Magalhaes Pinto & Noronha, 1980
* ''Molinacuaria'' Wong & Lankester, 1985
* ''Pseudoaviculariella'' Gupta & Jehan, 1971
* ''Tikusnema'' Hasegawa, Shiraishi & Rochma, 1992
* ''Voguracuaria'' Wong & Anderson, 1993