Původní popis
Allen, G. R. & Coates, D. 1990. A new species of freshwater eleotridid fish from northern Papua New Guinea. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement No. 34: 131-137.
Použitá literatura
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). 2024. Eschmeyer's catalog of fishes: Genera, species, references. World Wide Web.