Original description as Cyprinodon pisteri:
ZooBank:ACEDC91F-90CF-4428-A8C2-0A454456A905.
- Minckley, Wendell L & R.R. Miller, S.M. Norris. 2002. "Three new pupfish species, Cyprinodon (Teleostei, Cyprinodontidae), from Chihuahua, México, and Arizona, USA". Copeia. 2002(3):687-705 (ffm00171) (abstract)
Conservation: Cyprinodon pisteri is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.