Original description as Chirostoma lucius:
ZooBank:334849D8-40F4-4621-9FC8-DD543CADA782.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1900. "Descriptions of two new atherinoid fishes from Mexico". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 5(25):54-55 (ffm00529)
Synonyms (1):
- Chirostoma crystallinum Jordan & Snyder, 1899, with type locality at Laguna de Chapala, near Ocotlan, Jalisco, Mexico. Determiner: Reis et al., 2003
- Chirostoma ocotlanae Jordan & Snyder, 1899, with type locality at Lake Chapala near Ocotlan, Jalisco, Mexico. Determiner: Reis et al., 2003
Conservation: Chirostoma lucius is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (EN) endangered (2018).