Original description as Cyprinodon arcuatus:
ZooBank:FE68D458-92FC-4E2E-8F2F-10A2C52BC5D7.
- Minckley, Wendell L & R.R. Miller, S.M. Norris. 2002. "Three new pupfish species, Cyprinodon (Teleostei, Cyprinodontidae), from Chihuahua, México, and Arizona, USA". Copeia. 2002(3):687-705 (ffm00171) (abstract)
Conservation: Cyprinodon arcuatus is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species. Reported extinct in 1971 by Burkhead (2012).