最初命名為 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)
同種異名 (1):
- Characodon audax Smith & Miller, 1986, 其模式產地在 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. 鑑定者: Howell D.C. et al., 2008
保育: Characodon lateralis 被評鑑為國際自然保育聯盟瀕危物種紅皮書名單中的 (CR) 瀕臨絕種(極危) (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.