Original description as Dionda catostomops:
- Hubbs, Carl Leavitt & R.R. Miller. 1977. "Six distinctive cyprinid fish species referred to Dionda inhabiting segments of the Tampico embayment drainage of Mexico". Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 18(17):267-336 (ffm00121)
Conservation: Tampichthys catostomops is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.