Třída: Actinopterygii - paprskoploutví
Řád: Scorpaeniformes - ropušnicotvární
Čeleď: Peristediidae - brňákovití

Reference: Goode, G. B. 1880. Descriptions of seven new species of fishes from deep soundings on the southern New England coast, with diagnoses of two undescribed genera of flounders and a genus related to Merlucius. Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. v. 3 (no. 165): 337-350.