Třída: Actinopterygii - paprskoploutví
Řád: Characiformes - trnobřiší
Čeleď: Prochilodontidae - pseudokurimatovití

Reference: Schomburgk, R. H. 1841. The Natural history of fishes of Guiana.--Part I. In: Jardine, W. (ed.), The Naturalists' Library. Vol. 3. W. H. Lizars, Edinburgh. [Also an 1852 edition, entitled the Fishes of British Guiana, as v. 39.]. Fish British Guiana I: [1-16], 17-263, Pls. 1-30.