Original description as Apistogramma ortegai:
ZooBank:CC3CF4C4-0569-4426-94BF-D1F999DD728B.
- Britzke, Ricardo & C. Oliveira, S.O. Kullander. 2014. "Apistogramma ortegai (Teleostei: Cichlidae), a new species of cichlid fish from the Ampyiacu River in the Peruvian Amazon basin". Zootaxa. 3869(4):409-419. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3869.4.5 (crc06425) (abstract)
Conservation: Apistogramma ortegai is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.