Original description as Lepomis cyanellus:
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- Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel. 1819. "Prodrome de 70 nouveaux genres d'animaux découverts dans l'intérieur des États-Unis d'Amérique, durant l'année 1818". Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d'Histoire Naturelle. 88:417-429 (ffm00264)
Synonyms (1):
- Icthelis melanops Rafinesque, 1820, with type locality at Ohio River tributaries, Kentucky, Licking, and Miami rivers, U.S.A. Determiner: La Rivers, 1994
- Pomotis lugulus Baird & Girard, 1853, with type locality at Otter Creek, Arkansas, U.S.A. Determiner: La Rivers, 1994
- Bryttus signifer Girard, 1858, with type locality at Rio Medina, Texas, U.S.A. Determiner: La Rivers, 1994
- Calliurus diaphanus Girard, 1858, with type locality at Rio Blanco, Texas, U.S.A. Determiner: La Rivers, 1994
- Calliurus formosus Girard, 1858, with type locality at Chiefly in fresh waters of Arkansas, U.S.A. Determiner: La Rivers, 1994
- Calliurus microps Girard, 1858, with type locality at Rio Brazos, Texas, U.S.A. Determiner: La Rivers, 1994
- Calliurus murinus Girard, 1858, with type locality at Texas, U.S.A. Determiner: La Rivers, 1994
- Bryttus mineopas Cope, 1865, with type locality at Minneopa, near Mankato, Minnesota River drainage, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, U.S.A. Determiner: La Rivers, 1994
Conservation: Lepomis cyanellus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2018).