diff --git a/pandas/io/parsers.py b/pandas/io/parsers.py
index 2780b1a7f86c9..0f1cce273a146 100644
--- a/pandas/io/parsers.py
+++ b/pandas/io/parsers.py
@@ -341,6 +341,15 @@
     values. The options are `None` or `high` for the ordinary converter,
     `legacy` for the original lower precision pandas converter, and
     `round_trip` for the round-trip converter.
+storage_options : dict, optional
+    Extra options that make sense for a particular storage connection, e.g.
+    host, port, username, password, etc., if using a URL that will
+    be parsed by ``fsspec``, e.g., starting "s3://", "gcs://". An error
+    will be raised if providing this argument with a local path or
+    a file-like buffer. See the fsspec and backend storage implementation
+    docs for the set of allowed keys and values.
+
+    .. versionadded:: 1.2.0
 
 Returns
 -------