Třída: Actinopterygii - paprskoploutví
Řád: Clupeiformes - bezostní
Čeleď: Engraulidae - sardelovití

Synonyma: Engraulis baelama (Forsskål, 1775); Engraulis boelama (Forsskål, 1775); Engraulis brelama (Forsskål, 1775); Thrissina baelama (Forsskål, 1775); Thrissina baelma (Forsskål, 1775); Thrissocles baelama (Forsskål, 1775); Scutengraulis baelama (Forsskål, 1775); Thrissa baelama (Forsskål, 1775); Thryssina baelama (Forsskål, 1775); Clupea baelama Forsskål, 1775; Engraulis nesogallicus Bennett, 1832; Thrissocles encrasicholoides (non Bleeker, 1852); Engraulis samam Montrouzier, 1857; Engraulis polynemoides Günther, 1868; Anchovia apiensis evermanni Jordan & Seale, 1906; Thrissina aestuaria (non Ogilby, 1911); Engraulis macrops Kishinouye, 1911; Thryssa encrasicholoides (non Bleeker, 1952).

Reference: Forsskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit... Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Hauniae. Descr. Animalium: 1-20 + i-xxxiv + 1-164, map.