Original description as Heros guttulatus:
ZooBank:48828A96-AE29-4AA3-A11C-3946FC629DA4.
- Günther, Albert C. L. G. 1864. "Report of a collection of fishes made by Messrs. Dow, Godman, and Salvin in Guatemala". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1864:144-154 (ffm00137)
Conservation: Vieja guttulata is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (DD) data deficient (2018).