1. Labridae G. Cuvier 1816
  2. Laelapidae Berlese 1892
  3. Laganidae Desor 1858
  4. Lamiaceae Martynov 1820
  5. Lampeidae Krumbach 1925
  6. Lampropidae Sars 1878
  7. Lampyridae Latreille 1817
  8. Laniidae Rafinesque 1815
  9. Laodiceidae Agassiz 1862
  10. Laophontidae T. Scott 1904
  11. Laqueidae Thomson 1927
  12. Lasaeidae Gray 1842
  13. Laternulidae Hedley 1918 (1840)
  14. Latidae D.S. Jordan 1888
  15. Latreilliidae Stimpson 1858
  16. Lauraceae de Jussieu 1789
  17. Lecanidae Remane 1933
  18. Leiodidae Fleming 1821
  19. Leiognathidae T.N. Gill 1893
  20. Leiothrichidae Swainson 1831
  21. Lentibulariaceae Richard 1808
  22. Lepisosteidae Cuvier 1825
  23. Leporidae Fischer de Waldheim 1817
  24. Leptoceridae Leach in Brewster 1815
  25. Leptocheliidae Lang 1973
  26. Leptochitonidae Dall 1889
  27. Lernaeidae Cobbold 1879
  28. Lernanthropidae Kabata 1979
  29. Lessoniaceae Setchell & Gardner 1925
  30. Lestidae Calvert 1901
  31. Lethrinidae Bonaparte 1831
  32. Leucettidae de Laubenfels 1936
  33. Leuconidae Sars 1878
  34. Leucosiidae Samouelle 1891
  35. Leucotheidae Krumbach 1925
  36. Libellulidae Rambur 1842
  37. Lichomolgidae Kossmann 1877
  38. Liliaceae de Jussieu 1789
  39. Limnephilidae Kolenati 1848
  40. Limulidae Leach 1819
  41. Lineidae McIntosh 1873-1874
  42. Lingulidae Menke 1828
  43. Linognathidae Webb 1946
  44. Linuchidae Haeckel 1879
  45. Liopteridae Ashmead 1895
  46. Liparidae T.N. Gill 1861
  47. Lithodidae Samouelle 1819
  48. Lithotryidae Gruvel 1905
  49. Litiopidae Gray 1847
  50. Littorinidae Children 1834
  51. Lituolidae de Blainville 1827
  52. Lobatolampeidae Horita 2000
  53. Lobophylliidae Dai & Horng 2009
  54. Lomentariaceae J. Agardh 1876
  55. Lophiidae Rafinesque 1810
  56. Lophogastridae G.O. Sars 1870
  57. Lophotidae Bonaparte 1845
  58. Loricariidae Rafinesque 1815
  59. Loricidae Iredale & Hull 1923
  60. Lottiidae Gray 1840
  61. Lovenellidae Russell 1953
  62. Lucanidae Macleay 1819
  63. Lucinidae J. Fleming 1828
  64. Luidiidae Sladen 1889
  65. Lumbricidae Rafinesque & Schmaltz 1815
  66. Lumbrineridae Schmarda 1861
  67. Lutjanidae T.N. Gill 1861
  68. Lycosidae Sundevall 1833
  69. Lymnaeidae Rafinesque 1815
  70. Lyroctenidae Komai 1942
  71. Lythraceae J. St.-Hilaire 1805