Original description as Rhamdia macuspanensis:
ZooBank:A7803DBD-E0F7-4603-B17F-D6DE2E100C46.
- Weber, A. & H. Wilkens. 1998. "Rhamdia macuspanensis: a new species of troglobitic pimelodid catfish (Siluriformes; Pimelodidae) from a cave in Tabasco, Mexico". Copeia. 1998(4):998-1004 (ffm00486)
Conservation: Rhamdia macuspanensis is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.