Original description as Neetroplus panamensis:
ZooBank:2411EEF8-6445-445C-AFA1-B6C5A08A5161.
- Meek, Seth Eugene & S.F. Hildebrand. 1913. "New species of fishes from Panama". Field Museum of Natural History. [Publication 166: Zoology series]7(3):77-91 (crc00139)
Conservation: Panamius panamensis is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.