Original description as Xiphophorus bimaculatus:
ZooBank:37A16ABB-EA26-4E09-9BD8-A13306BFE7BD.
- Heckel, Johann Jakob. 1848. "Eine neue Gattung von Poecilien mit rochenartigem Anklammerungs-Organe". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde in Berlin. 1:289-303 (ffm04582)
Synonyms (1):
- Poeciliodes bimaculatus Steindachner, 1863, with type locality at Teapa, boundary between Chiapas and Tabasco, Mexico. Determiner: Rosen & Bailey, 1963
- Pseudoxiphophorus reticulatus Troschel, 1865, with type locality at Mexico. Determiner: Rosen & Bailey, 1963
- Pseudoxiphophorus pauciradiatus Regan, 1904, with type locality at Orizaba, Mexico. Determiner: Rosen & Bailey, 1963
- Pseudoxiphophorus bimaculatus var. taeniatus Regan, 1905, with type locality at San Domingo de Guzman. Determiner: Rosen & Bailey, 1963
- Pseudoxiphophorus bimaculatus peninsulae Hubbs, 1936, with type locality at Vicinity of Progreso, Yucatán, Mexico. Determiner: Rosen & Bailey, 1963
Conservation: Pseudoxiphophorus bimaculatus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2018).