 In 2005, it was named as "R. trachyrhynchus trachycephalus", a subspecies of "Rhacodactylus trachyrhynchus", by Myers and again by Yuri Kaverkin in 2009.It was assigned to genus "Rhacodactylus" by Aaron M. Bauer in 2012, a treatment that produced the combination "Rhacodactylus trachycephalus"."R.