Original description as Solea mazatlana:
ZooBank:FE257866-89FF-45A7-9DE3-4C41BEA5BCBC.
- Steindachner, Franz. 1869. "Eine Abhandlung über einige neue Fischarten aus den Sammlungen des Wiener-Museums". Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. v. 6(n. 19), pp. 149-150 (ffm00457)
Conservation: Achirus mazatlanus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2018).