Původní popis
Smith, J. L. B. 1966. An interesting new callionymid fish from Madagascar and the first record of a clingfish from there. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 13) v. 8 (nos. 89/90) [1965]: 321-324.
Použitá literatura
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). 2024. Eschmeyer's catalog of fishes: Genera, species, references. World Wide Web.