 With the advent of carangid taxonomy, the species was transferred first to "Caranx" and finally to "Carangoides", where it has remained to this day.Gilbert Percy Whitley attempted to separate the species into its own genus; "Ferdauia", although this classification is not accepted.The species was independently described and named a number of times after its initial naming, with this and confusion with "Carangoides orthogrammus" in the Indo-Pacific giving rise to a complex history of synonymies.