Třída: Actinopterygii - paprskoploutví
Řád: Perciformes - ostnoploutví
Čeleď: Pomacentridae - sapínovití

Reference: Jordan, D. S. & B. W. Evermann. 1898. The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Part II. Bull. U. S. Natl. Mus. No. 47: i-xxx + 1241-2183.