Original description as Chirostoma sphyraena:
ZooBank:50431ACC-1E8A-43BD-8D53-46BE5FB8732D.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1900. "Descriptions of two new atherinoid fishes from Mexico". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 5(25):54-55 (ffm00529)
Conservation: Chirostoma sphyraena is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (EN) endangered (2018).