最初命名為 Poecilia chica:
ZooBank:29626B95-2DD9-4829-A504-D0DDC209F267.
- Miller, Robert Rush. 1975. "Five new species of Mexican poeciliid fishes of the genera Poecilia, Gambusia, and Poeciliopsis". Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. (674):1-44 (ffm04575)
保育: Poecilia chica 被評鑑為國際自然保育聯盟瀕危物種紅皮書名單中的 (DD) 資料缺乏 (2018). The species is potentially threatened by destruction, modification, or reduction of its habitat as a result of perturbations caused by factors such as sedimentation, chemical pollution, de-watering, and anthropogenic modifications to natural channels or flow regimes (Maiz-Tome, 2019).