Original description as Cyprinodon meeki:
ZooBank:1D1DDD95-7559-4E01-826A-C3C5E6528E89.
- Miller, Robert Rush. 1976. "Four new pupfishes of the genus Cyprinodon from Mexico, with a key to the C. eximius complex". Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. 75(2):68-75 (ffm00172)
Conservation: Cyprinodon meeki is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (CR) critically endangered (1996).