Original description as Atherinichthys grandoculis:
ZooBank:74ED0451-2F6E-4088-89FC-B43DCDA6B860.
- Steindachner, Franz. 1894. "Vorläufige Mittheilung über einige neue Fischarten aus den Seen von Mexico". Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. 31(15):147-149 (ffm04513)
Synonyms (1):
- Chirostoma grandocule compressum de Buen, 1940, with type locality at Lerma River basin, Mexico. Determiner: Barbour, 1974
Conservation: Chirostoma grandocule is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (CR) critically endangered (2018).