Typový druh
Platophrys taeniopterus Gilbert, 1890
Původní popis
Jordan D. S. & Evermann B. W. 1898. The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America north of the Isthmus of Panama. Part III. Bull. U. S. Natl. Mus. No. 47. i-xxiv + 2183a-3136.
