Original description as Chapalichthys pardalis:
ZooBank:A580C483-D1A0-4E59-81B1-883B14F637BE.
- Álvarez del Villar, José. 1963. "Ictiología Michoacana. III.--Los peces des San Juanico y de Tocumbo, Michoacán". Anales de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas. 12(1-4):111-138 (ffm04538)
Synonyms (1):
- Chapalichthys peraticus Álvarez, 1963, with type locality at Presa San Juanico, near Cotija, Michoacan, Mexico. Determiner: Miller, 2006
Conservation: Chapalichthys pardalis is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (CR) critically endangered (2018).