考慮為晚期同種異名 Rivulus tenuis (Meek, 1904)
- Huber, Jean H. 1992. "Review of Rivulus: Ecobiogeography - Relationships". The most widespread Neotropical cyprinodont genus. Paris, Société Française d'Ichtyologie. 1-572 (ffm00076)
最初命名為 Rivulus godmani:
- Regan, Charles Tate. 1907. "Diagnoses of new Central-American freshwater fishes of the families Cyprinodontidae and Mugilidae". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 19(109):64-66 (ffm00054)