Original description as Gobius lyricus:
- Girard, Charles Frederic. 1858. "Notes upon various new genera and new species of fishes, in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution, and collected in connection with the United States and Mexican boundary survey: Major William Emory, Commissioner". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. (10):167-171 (ffm04559)
Conservation: Evorthodus lyricus is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.