最初命名為 Tigoma nigrescens:
- Girard, Charles Frederic. 1856. "Researches upon the cyprinoid fishes inhabiting the fresh waters of the United States, west of the Mississippi Valley, from specimens in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 8:165-213 (ffm04542)
同種異名 (1):
- Gila pulchella Baird & Girard, 1854, 其模式產地在 Rio Mimbres, tributary of Gila River, north of Deming, Luna County, New Mexico, U.S.A. 鑑定者: Gilbert, 1998
保育: Gila nigrescens 被評鑑為國際自然保育聯盟瀕危物種紅皮書名單中的 (EN) 瀕危 (1996).