Original description as Eslopsarum bartoni charari:
ZooBank:BA5E92B4-3EEB-437C-9843-5D5E34671D50.
- de Buen, Fernando. 1945. "Investigaciones sobre ictiologia mexicana. I. Atherinidae de aguas continentales de México". Anales del Instituto de Biologia de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. 16(2):475-532 (ffm00515)
Conservation: Chirostoma charari 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 1957 by Burkhead (2012).