Original description as Cyprinodon verecundus:
- Humphries, Julian. 1984. "Cyprinodon verecundus, n. sp., a fifth species of pupfish from Laguna Chichancanab". Copeia. 1984(1):58-68 (ffm00193)
Conservation: Cyprinodon verecundus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (CR) critically endangered (1996).