Typová lokalita
Gulf of Paria, between Trinidad Island, West Indies and Venezuela.
Původní popis
Chabanaud, P. 1940. Les especes et les sous-especes atlantiques du genre Achirus [Pisces Pleurinectoidea [sic] Achiridae]. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. (Sér. 2) v. 12 (no. 2): 86-90.
Použitá literatura
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). 2024. Eschmeyer's catalog of fishes: Genera, species, references. World Wide Web.