Original description as Fundulus lima:
- Vaillant, Leon Louis. 1894. "Sur une collection de poissons recueillie en Basse-Californie et dans le Golf par M. Léon Diguet". Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris. 6:69-75 (ffm00199)
Synonyms (1):
- Fundulus meeki Evermann, 1908, with type locality at Small stream flowing from large springs at San Ignacio, central Baja California, Mexico. Determiner: Wildekamp, 1996
Conservation: Fundulus lima is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (1996).