Original description as Heros lentiginosus:
ZooBank:009F9B65-2CDE-4BE4-B870-2CE3D02F2026.
- Steindachner, Franz. 1864. "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Chromiden Mejico's und Central-Amerika's". Denkschriften der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. 23(2):57-74 (ffm00248)
Synonyms (1):
- Theraps rheophilus Seegers & Staeck, 1985, with type locality at Río Nututun 6 km south of Palenque, Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico. Determiner: Conkel, 1993
Conservation: Rheoheros lentiginosus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2018). The species is thought to be widespread and while it is possibly declining in parts of its range to the threats of deforestation, habitat degradation, and invasive species, it is not thought that any global population decline is likely to happen (Daniels, 2019).