最初命名為 Cyprinella formosa:
ZooBank:7E356F69-7486-47D9-9B66-56374056A80F.
- Girard, Charles Frederic. 1856. "Researches upon the cyprinoid fishes inhabiting the fresh waters of the United States, west of the Mississippi Valley, from specimens in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 8:165-213 (ffm04542)
同種異名 (2):
- Notropis santamariae Evermann & Goldsborough, 1902, 其模式產地在 Small pool near Lake Santa María, Chihuahua, Mexico. 鑑定者: Chernoff & Miller, 1982
- Notropis mearnsi Snyder, 1915, 其模式產地在 Río San Bernardino (tributary to Río Yaqui), near monument 77 of the international boundary, Sonora, Mexico. 鑑定者: Gilbert, 1978
保育: Cyprinella formosa 尚未被國際自然保育聯盟列入IUCN受威脅物種紅皮書名單中.