Original description as Notropis aulidion:
- Chernoff, Barry & R.R. Miller. 1986. "Fishes of the Notropis calientis complex with a key to the southern shiners of Mexico". Copeia. 1986(1):170-183 (ffm00135)
Conservation: Hybopsis aulidion is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species. Reported extinct in 1965 by Burkhead (2012).