Original description as Esox belone timucu:
ZooBank:2AF4D0F5-C0EA-470F-AE62-75B901DBFCCF.
- Walbaum, Johann Julius. 1792. "Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium". Quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis. 3:1-723 (ffm00472)
Conservation: Strongylura timucu is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2018).