Třída: Actinopterygii - paprskoploutví
Řád: Gasterosteiformes - volnoostní
Čeleď: Syngnathidae - jehlovití

Synonyma: Siphostoma carinatum Gilbert, 1892.

Reference: Gilbert, C. H. 1892. Descriptions of thirty-four new species of fishes collected in 1888 and 1889, principally among the Santa Barbara Islands and in the Gulf of California. In: Scientific results of explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. v. 14 (no. 880): 539-566.