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

Reference: Jordan, D. S. & E. C. Starks. 1904. List of fishes dredged by the steamer Albatross off the coast of Japan in the summer of 1900, with descriptions of new species and a review of the Japanese Macrouridae. Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. v. 22 [1902]: 577-630, Pls. 1-8.