Original description as Laetacara fulvipinnis:
ZooBank:476EEE83-701E-4C50-A79A-13E2AF4A6032.
- Staeck, Wolfgang & Ingo Schindler. 2007. "Description of Laetacara fulvipinnis sp. n. (Teleostei: Perciformes: Cichlidae) from the upper drainages of the rio Orinoco and rio Negro in Venezuela". Vertebrate Zoology. v. 57(1); pp. 63-71 (crc01441) (abstract)
Conservation: Laetacara fulvipinnis is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.