Třída: Actinopterygii - paprskoploutví
Řád: Scorpaeniformes - ropušnicotvární
Čeleď: Scorpaenidae - ropušnicovití

Synonyma: Trachyscorpia cristulata (Goode & Bean, 1896); Scorpaena cristulata Goode & Bean, 1896.

Reference: Goode, G. B. & T. H. Bean. 1896. Oceanic ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures. Spec. Bull. U. S. Natl. Museum No. 2: Text: i-xxxv + 1-26 + 1-553, Atlas: i-xxiii, 1-26, 123 pls.