Original description as Atherina humboldtiana:
ZooBank:5247EC4F-4AB0-476D-A588-2CED41DD2C90.
- Cuvier, Georges & A. Valenciennes. 1835. "Tome dixième. Suite du livre neuvième. Scombéroïdes". Histoire naturelle des poissons. 10:1-482 (ffm00526)
Conservation: Chirostoma humboldtianum is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (VU) vulnerable (2018).