Original description as Chirostoma aculeatum:
ZooBank:C7DE63F0-4103-4E1B-8609-283B01E73ED8.
- Barbour, Clyde D.. 1973. "The systematics and evolution of the genus Chirostoma Swainson (Pisces, Atherinidae)". Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany. 18(3):97-141 (ffm00514)
Conservation: Chirostoma aculeatum is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (CR) critically endangered (2018).