Třída: Actinopterygii - paprskoploutví
Řád: Cypriniformes - máloostní
Čeleď: Balitoridae - mřenkovití

Reference: Prokofiev, A. M. 2006. Two new species of of the loach genus Triplophysa Rendahl 1933 from Western Mongolia and Northwestern China, with a key the species from the interior drainages of Tien-Shan, Karakurum and Altai Mountains. Senckenbergiana biologica 86(2): 235–259.