Třída: Actinopterygii - paprskoploutví
Řád: Perciformes - ostnoploutví
Čeleď: Chaenopsidae - slizounkovití

Synonyma: Acanthemblemaria arborescens Beebe & Tee-Van, 1928; Paremblemaria aspera Longley, 1927.

Reference: Longley, W. H.   1927. Observations upon the ecology of Tortugas fishes with notes upon the taxonomy of species new or little known. (Definition of three new genera and two species). Carnegie Inst. Wash. Year Book No. 26: 222-224.