Author: Domínguez-Domínguez, Bernal-Zuñiga & Piller, 2016
Comments: This species occurs in permanent pond, spring, reservoir, and seasonally affected streams. The type locality is a permanent pond where this species inhabits an area with turbid and shallow water of no more than 1.5 m deep and with bottom comprising of mud and gravel and no water plants present. Other fishes collected in the area are the following: <i>Xenotoca melanosoma</i>, <i>Goodea atripinnis</i>, <i>Poeciliopsis infans</i>, and the introduced <i>Xiphophorus variatus</i> and <i>Oreochromis</i> sp..  In the El Moloya Spring, this species inhabits clear water with gravel to muddy bottom and water plants. The following species are found in this pond:  <i>X. melanosoma</i>, <i>Zoogoneticus purepechus</i>, <i>Ameca splendens</i>, <i>G. atripinnis</i>, <i>P. infans</i>, and the introduced <i>Oreochromis</i> sp. In Oconahua Dam, this species live in  turbid water with a muddy bottom and with few water plants. Other species occurring in this dam include the following:  <i>X. melanosoma</i>, <i>G. atripinnis</i>, <i>P. infans</i>, as well as the introduced <i>Lepomis macrochirus</i>, and <i>Cyprinus carpio</i>.  This species is also collected in a seasonally fluctuating stream (San Marcos stream) that is dry for most of the year, but when water is present the surface of the stream is totally cover with Eichhornia crassipes Martius, Thypa sp., and Cyperus sp. and the water at this site is highly polluted by organic matter and is turbid. This species is also found in Sahuaripa stream, an irrigation channel totally modified and fed by a water pump. Other species collected in San Marcos and Sahuaripa streams are <i>X. melanosoma</i>, <i>Allotoca</i> sp., <i>G. atripinnis</i>, <i>P. infans</i>, and <i>Oreochromis</i> sp. (Ref. 117630).