Original description as Girardinichthys ireneae:
- Radda, Alfred C & M.K. Meyer. 2003. "Description of Girardinichthys ireneae sp. n. from Zacapu, Michoacan, Mexico with remarks on the genera Girardinichthys Bleeker, 1860 and Hubbsina de Buen, 1941 (Goodeidae, Pisces)". Annalen des Wiener Museums der Naturgeschichte. (104B):5-9 (ffm04519) (abstract)
Conservation: Hubbsina ireneae is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.