Typová lokalita
Rio Iriri, just upriver of its mouth into Rio Xingu, Muncípio de Altamira, 3°48'54"S, 52°37'09"W, Pará, Brazil.
Původní popis
Vari, R. P., de Santana, C. D. & Wosiacki, W. B. 2012. South American electric knifefishes of the genus Archolaemus (Ostariophysi, Gymnotiformes): undetected diversity in a clade of rheophiles. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society v. 165 (no. 3): 670-699.
Použitá literatura
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). 2024. Eschmeyer's catalog of fishes: Genera, species, references. World Wide Web.