Original description as Profundulus adani:
ZooBank:D5F4A140-E101-48E8-913A-9D365B2DCA44.
- Dominguez-Cisneros, Sara E & Ernesto Velázquez-Velázquez, Caleb D. McMahan, Wilfredo A. Matamoros. 2021. "A new species of killifish of the genus Profundulus (Atherinomorpha: Profundulidae) from the upper reaches of the Papaloapan River in the Mexican state of Oaxaca". Ichthyology & Herpetology. 109(4):949–957 (ffm01006) (abstract)
Conservation: Profundulus adani is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.