Smith, D. G. 1994. Catalog of type specimens of Recent fishes in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 6: Anguilliformes, Saccopharyngiformes, and Notacanthiformes (Teleostei: Elopomorpha). No. 566 24.
Jordan, D. S., Gilbert, C. H. 1883. Description of a new eel (Sidera castanea) from Mazatlan, Mexico. 5 (335): 647.
Type Status:
Lectotype
Syntype
Place:
Mexico: Mazatlan., Sinaloa, Mexico, North Pacific Ocean