Original description as Notropis buchanani:
- Meek, Seth Eugene. 1896. "A list of fishes and mollusks collected in Arkansas and Indian Territory in 1894". Bulletin of the U.S. Fish Commission. 15(7):341-349 (ffm00141)
Conservation: Notropis buchanani is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.