Original description as Megupsilon aporus:
- Miller, Robert Rush & V. Walters. 1972. "A new genus of cyprinodontid fish from Nuevo Leon, Mexico". Contributions in Science (Los Angeles). (233):1-13 (ffm00211)
Conservation: Megupsilon aporus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (EW) extinct in the wild (1996). Reported extinct in 1994 by Burkhead (2012).