Original description as Cyprinella alvarezdelvillari:
- Contreras-Balderas, Salvador. 1994. "Cyprinella alvarezdelvillari, a new cyprinid fish from Río Nazas of México, with a key to the Lepida Clade". Copeia. 1994(4):897-906 (ffm00104)
Conservation: Cyprinella alvarezdelvillari is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.