Original description as Glaridodon latidens:
ZooBank:D35786AB-B726-4DEA-8859-48BF2D23DB86.
- Garman, Samuel. 1895. "The cyprinodonts". Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 19:1-179 (ffm00008)
Conservation: Poeciliopsis latidens is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.