Třída: Actinopterygii - paprskoploutví
Řád: Ophidiiformes - hrujovci
Čeleď: Ophidiidae - hrujovití

Reference: Radcliffe, L. 1913. Descriptions of seven new genera and thirty-one new species of fishes of the families Brotulidae and Carapidae from the Philippine Islands and the Dutch East Indies. [Scientific results of the Philippine cruise ... "Albatross," 1907-1910.--No. 24.]. Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. v. 44 (no. 1948): 135-176, Pls. 7-17.