Original description as Chirostoma chapalae:
ZooBank:C2868EEC-35AA-4BBC-8A84-8DA76C8F5AE9.
- Jordan, David Starr & J.O. Snyder. 1899. "Notes on a collection of fishes from the rivers of Mexico, with description of twenty new species". Bulletin of the U.S. Fish Commission. 19:115-147 (ffm00041)
Conservation: Chirostoma chapalae is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (VU) vulnerable (2018).