最初的描述(命名) :
- 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)
模式物種: Herichthys cyanoguttatus Baird & Girard, 1854 (monotypy).
同種異名:
- Nosferatu De la Maza-Benignos, Ornelas garcía, Lozano-Vilano, García-Ramírez & Doadrio, 2015.
已描述(命名)的物種包括 (15):
有效: 11 同義字: 4- Heros deppii Heckel, 1840 (有效)
- Heros montezuma Heckel, 1840 (同義字)
- Herichthys cyanoguttatus Baird & Girard, 1854 (有效)
- Acara bartoni Bean, 1892 (有效)
- Neetroplus carpintis Jordan & Snyder, 1899 (有效)
- Cichlasoma steindachneri Jordan & Snyder, 1899 (有效)
- Heros (Cichlasoma) labridens Pellegrin, 1903 (有效)
- Herichthys geddesi Regan, 1905 (同義字)
- Cichlasoma minckleyi Kornfield & Taylor, 1983 (有效)
- Cichlasoma pantostictum Taylor & Miller, 1983 (有效)
- Herichthys molango Taylor & Miller, 1983 (同義字)
- Herichthys tamasopoensis Artigas Azas, 1993 (有效)
- Herichthys pame De la Maza & Lozano-Vilano, 2013 (有效)
- Herichthys pratinus De la Maza Benignos & Lozano Vilano, 2013 (同義字)
- Herichthys tepehua de la Maza-Benignos, Ornelas-García, Lozano-Vilano, García-Ramírez & Doadrio, 2014 (有效)
物種群組:
- Cyanoguttatus (Artigas Azas, 1992)
- Labridens (Artigas Azas, 1992)
deppii, cyanoguttatus, bartoni, carpintis, minckleyi, tamasopoensis, tepehua.