Kaliwatan sa tanom nga ubi ang Dioscorea tamoidea.^[1] Una ning gihulagway ni August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach.^[2] Ang Dioscorea tamoidea sakop sa kahenera nga Dioscorea, ug kabanay nga Dioscoreaceae.^[1][3]

Kini nga matang hayop na sabwag sa:

• Cuba
• Haiti

Ang kaliwatan gibahinbahin ngadto sa matang nga nahiubos:^[1]

• D. t. lindenii
• D. t. tamoidea

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Roskov Y., Kunze T., Orrell T., Abucay L., Paglinawan L., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Decock W., De Wever A., Didžiulis V. (ed) (2019). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2019 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. TaxonID: 43181802. Retrieved 2019-11-11. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. ↑ C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) (1842) , In: Fl. Bras. 3(1): 42
3. ↑ Govaerts R. (ed). For a full list of reviewers see: http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/compilersReviewers.do (2019). WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (version Aug 2017). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.