最初命名為 Gobius lyricus:
- Girard, Charles Frederic. 1858. "Notes upon various new genera and new species of fishes, in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution, and collected in connection with the United States and Mexican boundary survey: Major William Emory, Commissioner". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. (10):167-171 (ffm04559)
保育: Evorthodus lyricus 尚未被國際自然保育聯盟列入IUCN受威脅物種紅皮書名單中.