- Kingdom Animalia -- Animal, animals, animaux
- Phylum Chordata -- chordates, cordado, cordés
- Subphylum Vertebrata -- vertebrado, vertebrates, vertébrés
- Superclass Osteichthyes -- bony fishes, osteíceto, peixe ósseo, poissons osseux
- Class Actinopterygii -- poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées, ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes
- Subclass Neopterygii -- neopterygians
- Infraclass Teleostei
- Superorder Acanthopterygii
- Order Perciformes -- perch-like fishes
- Suborder Percoidei
- Family Centrarchidae -- achigans et crapets, lobinas, sunfishes
- Genus Acantharchus Gill, 1864 -- mud sunfishes