考慮為晚期同種異名 Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)
- 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)
最初命名為 Ictalurus anguilla:
- Evermann, Barton Warren & W.C. Kendall. 1898. "Descriptions of new or little-known genera and species of fishes from the United States". Bulletin of the U.S. Fish Commission. 17:125-133 (ffm00244)