Třída: Actinopterygii - paprskoploutví
Řád: Characiformes - trnobřiší
Čeleď: Characidae - tetrovití

Reference: Günther, A. 1864. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Siluridae, Characinidae, Haplochitonidae, Sternoptychidae, Scopelidae, Stomiatidae in the collection of the British Museum. Cat. Fishes v. 5: i-xxii + 1-455.