Třída: Actinopterygii - paprskoploutví
Řád: Tetraodontiformes - čtverzubci
Čeleď: Tetraodontidae - čtverzubcovití

Synonyma: Tetraodon lineatum Linnaeus, 1758; Tetraodon lineatus lineatus Linnaeus, 1758; Crayracion fahaca (Hasselquist, 1762); Tetraodon fahaka Hasselquist, 1762; Tetraodon fahaka fahaka Hasselquist, 1762; Tetraodon physa Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809; Tetrodon strigosus Bennett, 1834; Tetraodon fahaka strigosus Bennett, 1834; Tetraodon lineatus strigosus Bennett, 1834; Tetraodon lineatus rudolfianus Deraniyagala, 1948; Tetraodon fahaka rudolfianus Deraniyagala, 1948.

Reference: Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae, Ed. X. (Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata.) Holmiae. Systema Nat. ed. 10 v. 1: i-ii + 1-824.