Original description as Xiphophorus clemenciae:
ZooBank:9663D6FA-C465-43D3-BB46-5A942D78D0DC.
- Álvarez del Villar, José. 1959. "Nuevas especies de Xiphophorus e Hyporamphus procedentes del Río Coatzacoalcos (Pisc., Poeciliidae y Hemiramphidae)". Ciencia. 19(4-5):69-73 (ffm00051)
Conservation: Xiphophorus clemenciae is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (DD) data deficient (2018).