Original description as Dionda diaboli:
ZooBank:87C13339-077C-46E6-B87D-E4153F056151.
- Hubbs, Clark L. 1957. "Dionda diaboli (Cyprinidae), a new minnow from Texas". Southwestern Naturalist. 69-77 (ffm00123)
Conservation: Dionda diaboli is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (EN) endangered (2018).