Décrit initialement sous Characodon lateralis:
ZooBank:08E6C907-C69E-4723-85B8-AB7C55121D3A.
- 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)
Synonymes (1):
- Characodon audax Smith & Miller, 1986, avec la localité type à Pond at El Ojo de Agua de Las Mujeres, near the village of El Toboso (24°16'35''N, 104°34'5''W), Durango, Mexico. Identifié par: Howell D.C. et al., 2008
Conservation: Characodon lateralis est évalué par l'Union Internationale pour la Conservation de la Nature dans la Liste Rouge des espèces menacées comme étant (CR) en danger critique (2018). Of the more than fifteen known localities where Characodon lateralis has been known to inhabit during the last fifty years, they just remain nowadays in six, and they may disappear very soon from localities where they localities where they remain, all highly vulnerable.