Třída: Actinopterygii - paprskoploutví
Řád: Perciformes - ostnoploutví
Čeleď: Serranidae - kanicovití

Reference: Jordan, D. S. & B. W. Evermann 1900. The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Part IV. Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 47: i-ci + 3137-3313, Pls. 1-392.