Original description as Poblana alchichica:
ZooBank:FDA308C4-BE64-425A-AA2E-2CD206B50762.
- de Buen, Fernando. 1945. "Investigaciones sobre ictiologia mexicana. I. Atherinidae de aguas continentales de México". Anales del Instituto de Biologia de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. 16(2):475-532 (ffm00515)
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Conservation: Poblana alchichica is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (CR) critically endangered (2018).