Kaliwatan sa isda ang Protomyctophum thompsoni^[1]. Una ning gihulagway ni Chapman ni adtong 1944.^[2] Ang Protomyctophum thompsoni sakop sa kahenera nga Protomyctophum, ug kabanay nga Myctophidae.^[1][3] Walay nalista nga matang nga sama niini.^[1]

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: 42892892. Retrieved 2019-11-11. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. ↑ Quast, J.C. and E.L. Hall (1972) List of fishes of Alaska and adjacent waters with a guide to some of their literature. , U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS SSRF-658, 47 p.
3. ↑ Froese R. & Pauly D. (eds). (2019). FishBase (version Feb 2018). 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.