Original description as Siphostoma starksii:
ZooBank:640321E5-9704-4C2D-A886-852A458F73BE.
- Jordan, David Starr. 1895. "The fishes of Sinaloa". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 5:377-514 (ffm00034)
Conservation: Pseudophallus starksii is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.