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

Holotyp: FMNH 52863 [ex CM 1028]

Reference: Eigenmann, C. H. 1909. Reports on the expedition to British Guiana of the Indiana University and the Carnegie Museum, 1908. Report no. 1. Some new genera and species of fishes from British Guiana. Ann. Carnegie Mus. v. 6 (no. 1): 4-54.