Original description as Gambusia turrubarensis:
ZooBank:826BB6C7-61AA-457E-A9B0-11097CE76AC5.
- Meek, Seth Eugene. 1912. "New species of fishes from Costa Rica". Field Museum of Natural History, Publications, Zoölogical Series. 10(7):69-75 (ffm00036)
Synonyms (1):
- Heterandria colombianus Eigenmann & Henn, 1912, with type locality at Brackish water, mouth of Río Dagua, Colombia. Determiner: Rosen & Bailey, 1963
- Priapichthys fosteri Hildebrand, 1925, with type locality at Río Lempa, San Marcos, El Salvador. Determiner: Rosen & Bailey, 1963
Conservation: Poeciliopsis turrubarensis is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2019).