Original description as Mollienesia jonesii:
ZooBank:D88EBDD4-ABCD-4EBD-8074-55ED2745C05A.
- Günther, Albert C. L. G. 1874. "Descriptions of new species of fishes in the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 14(83):368-371 (ffm04584)
Conservation: Pseudoxiphophorus jonesii is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2018).