Original description:
- Regan, Charles Tate. 1905. "A revision of the fishes of the South-American cichlid genera Acara, Nannacara, Acaropsis, and Astronotus". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. [Series 7]15:329-347 (crc00016)
Type species: Nannacara anomala Regan, 1905 (subsequent designation).