考慮為晚期同種異名 Anguilla rostrata (Lesueur, 1817)
- Ege, V.. 1939. "A revision of the genus Anguilla Shaw. A systematic, phylogenetic and geographical study". Dana Report. (16):1-257 (ffm04550)
最初命名為 Anguilla tyrannus:
- Girard, Charles Frederic. 1858. "Notes upon various new genera and new species of fishes, in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution, and collected in connection with the United States and Mexican boundary survey: Major William Emory, Commissioner". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. (10):167-171 (ffm04559)