Typová lokalita
Kajali River, Shiposhi, Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra, India, 16°55'07.27"N, 73°37'59.39"E, elevation 54 meters.
Původní popis
Katwate, U., Apte, D. & Raghavan, R. 2020. Dawkinsia uttara, a new species of filament barb (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Western Ghats of India. Vertebrate Zoology v. 70 (no. 4): 717-730.
Použitá literatura
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). 2024. Eschmeyer's catalog of fishes: Genera, species, references. World Wide Web.