Original description as Xiphophorus montezumae:
ZooBank:2D6B74C4-2A4C-4D1D-B5F5-727B0425AA73.
- Jordan, David Starr & J.O. Snyder. 1899. "Notes on a collection of fishes from the rivers of Mexico, with description of twenty new species". Bulletin of the U.S. Fish Commission. 19:115-147 (ffm00041)
Conservation: Xiphophorus montezumae is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (DD) data deficient (2018).