Original description as Allodontichthys polylepis:
ZooBank:85A187F4-C9C0-4BA6-9AD1-770FD191F7CC.
- Rauchenberger, Mary. 1988. "A new species of Allodontichthys (Cyprinodontiformes: Goodeidae), with comparative morphometrics for the genus". Copeia. 1988(2):433-441 (ffm04504) (abstract)
Conservation: Allodontichthys polylepis is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (CR) critically endangered (2019).