Třída: Actinopterygii - paprskoploutví
Řád: Anguilliformes - holobřiší
Čeleď: Ophichthidae - hadařovití

Synonyma: Caecula natalensis Fowler, 1934; Ophichthys tenuis Günther, 1870; Pantonora tenuis (Günther, 1870).

Reference: Günther, A. 1870. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. Cat. Fishes v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549.