Original description as Gobiesox fluviatilis:
ZooBank:FC73EB4B-760B-4F78-8D03-A238319E9210.
- Briggs, John C & Robert R. Miller. 1960. "Two new freshwater clingfishes of the genus Gobiesox from southern Mexico". Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. (616):1-15 (ffm00388)
Conservation: Gobiesox fluviatilis is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (VU) vulnerable (2018). The species is threatened by dam construction (Ceballos et al., 2016:388).