Original description as Poeciliopsis lucida:
ZooBank:B07C98E5-DB87-4123-9DBE-86BE5F81B323.
- Miller, Robert Rush. 1960. "Four new species of viviparous fishes, genus Poeciliopsis, from northwestern Mexico". Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. (619):1-11 (ffm00030)
Conservation: Poeciliopsis lucida is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.