Original description as Apistogramma erythrura:
ZooBank:886EBCA2-4756-48C7-892F-52933BECF0D5.
- Staeck, Wolfgang & Ingo Schindler. 2008. "Apistogramma erythrura sp. n. – a new geophagine dwarf cichlid (Teleostei: Perciformes: Cichlidae) from the río Mamoré drainage in Bolivia". Vertebrate Zoology. 58(2)2008:197-206 (crc01696)
Conservation: Apistogramma erythrura is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.