最初的描述(命名) :
- Girard, Charles Frederic. 1856. "Researches upon the cyprinoid fishes inhabiting the fresh waters of the United States, west of the Mississippi Valley, from specimens in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 8:165-213 - (ffm04542)
模式物種: Agosia chrysogaster Girard, 1856 (subsequent designation).