Nominal species Mayaheros urophthalmus (Günther, 1862)
- Hubbs, Carl Leavitt. 1936. "XVII. Fishes of the Yucatan Peninsula". The Cenotes of Yucatán, a Zoological and Hydrographic Survey. (457) pp. 157-287 (crc00250)
Original description as Cichlasoma urophthalmus trispilum:
ZooBank:8A18B5B6-649B-44A6-9241-9B95EE0E9FBF.
- Hubbs, Carl Leavitt. 1935. "Fresh-water fishes collected in British Honduras and Guatemala". Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. (n. 28); pp. 13-15 (crc00252)
Conservation: Mayaheros urophthalmus trispilus is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.