Třída: Actinopterygii - paprskoploutví
Řád: Perciformes - ostnoploutví
Čeleď: Serranidae - kanicovití

Synonyma: Epinephelus louti (Forsskål, 1775); Serranus louti (Forsskål, 1775); Perca louti Forsskål, 1775; Serranus punctulatus (Lacepède, 1801); Variola punctulatus (Lacepède, 1801); Labrus punctulatus Lacepède, 1801; Serranus luti Valenciennes, 1828; Serranus roseus Valenciennes, 1828; Serranus flavimarginatus Rüppell, 1830; Serranus longipinna Swainson, 1839; Variola longipinna Swainson, 1839; Serranus phaenistomus Swainson, 1839; Serranus melanotaenia (Bleeker, 1857); Variola melanotaenia Bleeker, 1857; Serranus cernipedis Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915.

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.