Original description as Chirostoma bartoni:
ZooBank:693C83B2-4D17-4A25-8E76-DABB9FB6B0F9.
- Jordan, David Starr & B.W. Evermann. 1896. "The fishes of North and Middle America: A descriptive catalogue of the species of fishes and fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Part I". Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 47:1-1240 (ffm00055)
Conservation: Chirostoma bartoni is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (CR) critically endangered (2018). Reported extinct in 2006 by Burkhead (2012).