最初命名為 Tigoma purpurea:
- 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)
保育: Gila purpurea 被評鑑為國際自然保育聯盟瀕危物種紅皮書名單中的 (VU) 易危的 (1996).