Original description as Rivulus marmoratus:
- Poey y Aloy, Felipe. 1880. "Revisio piscium Cubensium". Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, Madrid. 9:243-261 (ffm00074)
Synonyms (2):
- Rivulus ocellatus Hensel, 1868, with type locality at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Determiner: Lazara, 2001
- Rivulus heyei Nichols, 1914, with type locality at Saona Island, Dominican Republic, West Indies. Determiner: Huber, 1992
- Rivulus marmoratus bonairensis Hoedeman, 1958, with type locality at Pos di Pepe, Bonaire, Netherland Antilles. Determiner: Huber, 1992
- Rivulus garciai de la Cruz & Dubitsky, 1976, with type locality at Matanzas, Varadero, Cuba. Determiner: Huber, 1992
Conservation: Rivulus marmoratus is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.