Třída: Actinopterygii - paprskoploutví
Řád: Beloniformes - jehlotvární
Čeleď: Hemiramphidae - polozobánkovití

Reference: Günther, A. 1866. Catalogue of fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Salmonidae, Percopsidae, Galaxidae, Mormyridae, Gymnarchidae, Esocidae, Umbridae, Scombresocidae, Cyprinodontidae, in the collection of the British Museum. Cat. Fishes v. 6: i-xv + 1-368.