Original description as Catostomus bubalus:
ZooBank:1DB04714-F940-4620-87E2-73B2FC529FE9.
- Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel. 1818. "Further discoveries in natural history, made during a journey through the western region of the United States". American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review. 3(6):445-447(oct) (ffm04556)
Conservation: Ictiobus bubalus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2018).