Considered a synonym of Campostoma ornatum Girard, 1856
- Gilbert, Carter R.. 1998. "Type catalog of Recent and fossil North American Freshwater fishes: families Cyprinidae, Catostomidae, Ictaluridae, Centrarchidae and Elassomatidae". Florida Museum of Natural History, Special Publication No. 1. 1-284 (ffm00083)
Original description as Campostoma pricei:
- Jordan, David Starr & B.W. Evermann. 1896. "The fishes of North and Middle America: A descriptive catalogue of the species of fishes and fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Part I". Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 47:1-1240 (ffm00055)