Original description as Chirostoma melanoccus:
ZooBank:3DF5DCAA-2B32-4989-8132-47822B2343B2.
- Álvarez del Villar, José. 1963. "Ictiología Michoacana. III.--Los peces des San Juanico y de Tocumbo, Michoacán". Anales de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas. 12(1-4):111-138 (ffm04538)
Conservation: Chirostoma melanoccus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (CR) critically endangered (2018).