Typový druh
Paraxenisthmus springeri Gill & Hoese, 1993
Původní popis
Gill, A. C. & D. F. Hoese 1993. Paraxenisthmus springeri, new genus and species of gobioid fish from the West Pacific, and its phylogenetic position within the Xenisthmidae. Copeia 1993 (no. 4): 1049-1057.