最初命名為 Girardinus pleurospilus:
ZooBank:2C49264A-96FD-4702-8A98-81CA1C5BEC30.
- Günther, Albert C. L. G. 1866. "Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Salmonidae, Percopsidae, Galaxidae, Mormyridae, Gymnarchidae, Esocidae, Umbridae, Scombresocidae, Cyprinodontidae, in the collection of the British Museum". Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. 6:1-368 (ffm04521)
保育: Poeciliopsis pleurospilus 被評鑑為國際自然保育聯盟瀕危物種紅皮書名單中的 (LC) 無危 (2018).