最初的描述:
- Baird, Spencer F. & C.F. Girard. 1854. "Descriptions of new species of fishes collected in Texas, New Mexico and Sonora, by Mr. John H. Clark, on the U. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey, and in Texas by Capt. Stewart Van Vliet, U. S. A". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. (7):24-29 (ffm00256)
标本品种: Herichthys cyanoguttatus Baird & Girard, 1854 (monotypy).
同种异名:
- Nosferatu De la Maza-Benignos, Ornelas garcía, Lozano-Vilano, García-Ramírez & Doadrio, 2015.
已包括的已描述鱼种 (15):
有效的: 11 同种异名: 4- Heros deppii Heckel, 1840 (有效的)
- Heros montezuma Heckel, 1840 (同种异名)
- Herichthys cyanoguttatus Baird & Girard, 1854 (有效的)
- Acara bartoni Bean, 1892 (有效的)
- Neetroplus carpintis Jordan & Snyder, 1899 (有效的)
- Cichlasoma steindachneri Jordan & Snyder, 1899 (有效的)
- Heros (Cichlasoma) labridens Pellegrin, 1903 (有效的)
- Herichthys geddesi Regan, 1905 (同种异名)
- Cichlasoma minckleyi Kornfield & Taylor, 1983 (有效的)
- Cichlasoma pantostictum Taylor & Miller, 1983 (有效的)
- Herichthys molango Taylor & Miller, 1983 (同种异名)
- Herichthys tamasopoensis Artigas Azas, 1993 (有效的)
- Herichthys pame De la Maza & Lozano-Vilano, 2013 (有效的)
- Herichthys pratinus De la Maza Benignos & Lozano Vilano, 2013 (同种异名)
- Herichthys tepehua de la Maza-Benignos, Ornelas-García, Lozano-Vilano, García-Ramírez & Doadrio, 2014 (有效的)
种群:
- Cyanoguttatus (Artigas Azas, 1992)
- Labridens (Artigas Azas, 1992)
deppii, cyanoguttatus, bartoni, carpintis, minckleyi, tamasopoensis, tepehua.