Mammillaria polythele Mart. subsp. polythele in Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. German. Nat. Cur. 16: 328. 1832 sec. Hunt 2016
- =Mammillaria galeottii Scheidw., Hort. Belge. 4: 93. 1837 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Mammillaria tetracantha Salm-Dyck ex Pfeiff., Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 18. 1837 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Mammillaria crocidata Lem., Cact. aliq. nov.: 9. 1838 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Mammillaria dolichocentra Lem., Cact. aliq. nov.: 3. 1838 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Mammillaria kewensis Salm-Dyck, Cact. hort. dyck., ed. 3: 112. 1850 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Cactus polythele (Mart.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 261. 1891 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Mammillaria hidalgensis J.A. Purpus in Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 17: 118. 1907 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Neomammillaria crocidata (Lem.) Britton & Rose, Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 4: 87. 1923 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Neomammillaria galeottii (Scheidw.) Britton & Rose, Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 4: 105. 1923 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Neomammillaria kewensis (Salm-Dyck) Britton & Rose, Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 4: 104. 1923 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Neomammillaria polythele (Mart.) Britton & Rose, Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 4: 88. 1923 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Neomammillaria dolichocentra (Lem.) Tiegel in Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. México 5: 269. 1934 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Neomammillaria hoffmanniana Tiegel in Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. México 5: 269. 1934 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Mammillaria hoffmanniana (Tiegel) Bravo, Cact. México: 687. 1937 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Mammillaria kewensis var. craigiana Schmoll ex R.T. Craig, Mammillaria Handb.: 137. 1945 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Mammillaria neophaecantha Backeb. in Blätt. Sukkulentenk. 1: 5. 1949 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Mammillaria obconella var. galeottii (Scheidw.) Backeb., Cactaceae (Backeberg) 5: 3343. 1961 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Mammillaria xochipilli Repp., Gatt. Mammillaria: 167. 1987 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003