Original description as Gerres melanopterus:
- Bleeker, Pieter. 1863. "Mémoire sur les poissons de la côte de Guinée". Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem. 18:1-136 (ffm00470)
Conservation: Eucinostomus melanopterus is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.