Original description as Gobius cyprinoides:
- Pallas, Petrus Simon. 1770. "Spicilegia Zoologica quibus novae imprimis et obscurae animalium species iconibus, descriptionibus atque commentariis illustrantur". Berolini, Gottl. August. Lange. v. 1, pp. 1-56 (ffm00448)
Synonyms (1):
- Gobius crista-galli Valenciennes, 1868, with type locality at Havana, Cuba. Determiner: Evermann et al., 1898
Conservation: Lophogobius cyprinoides is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.