Nomimal species Algansea monticola Barbour & Miller, 1968
- Gilbert, Carter R.. 1998. "Type catalog of Recent and fossil North American Freshwater fishes: families Cyprinidae, Catostomidae, Ictaluridae, Centrarchidae and Elassomatidae". Florida Museum of Natural History, Special Publication No. 1. 1-284 (ffm00083)
Original description as Algansea monticula archidion:
- Barbour, Clyde D & R.R. Miller. 1994. "Diversification in the Mexican cyprinid fish Algansea monticola (Pisces: Cyprinidae), with description of a new subspecies". Copeia. 1994(3):662-676 (ffm00086) (abstract)
Conservation: Algansea monticula archidion is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.