Třída: Actinopterygii - paprskoploutví
Řád: Siluriformes - sumci
Čeleď: Callichthyidae - pancéřníčkovití

Reference: Nijssen, H. & I. J. H. Isbrücker. 1967. Notes on the Guiana species of Corydoras Lacépède, 1883, with descriptions of seven new species and designation of a neotype for Corydoras punctatus (Bloch, 1794)-(Pisces, Cypriniformes, Callichthyidae). Zool. Meded. (Leiden) v. 42 (no. 5): 21-50, Pls. 1-5.