Original description as Gambusia fasciata:
ZooBank:2EB67508-3113-4568-A2F1-B08BDE5132E1.
- Meek, Seth Eugene. 1904. "The fresh-water fishes of Mexico north of the isthmus of Tehuantepec". Field Columbian Museum Publication. 1-252 (ffm00159)
Conservation: Poeciliopsis fasciata is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2018).