Original description as Geophagus wavrini:
ZooBank:63BF2CA2-4955-4712-A90F-64AAC001B74D.
- Gosse, Jean-Pierre. 1963. "Description de deux cichlides nouveaux de la region amazonienne". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. 39 (35); p 2-3 (crc00069)
Conservation: Biotodoma wavrini is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.