最初的描述:
- Schmitter-Soto, Juan Jacobo. 2007. "A systematic revision of the genus Archocentrus (Perciformes: Cichlidae), with the description of two new genera and six new species". Zootaxa. 1603:1-78 (ffm01457)
标本品种: Heros octofasciatus Regan, 1903 (original designation).