Original description as Catostomus texanus:
ZooBank:B60422B0-4E98-4777-9C96-27CAB4816BF8.
- Abbott, Charles Conrad. 1853. "Description of four new species of North American Cyprinidae". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 6:368-369 (ffm00132)
Synonyms (1):
- Quassilabia cypho Lockington, 1879, with type locality at Colorado River, at the junction of the Gila River, Arizona, U.S.A. Determiner: La Rivers, 1994
Conservation: Xyrauchen texanus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (CR) critically endangered (2012).