Original description as Amphilophus chancho:
ZooBank:0BCB919C-D1E6-44DF-B199-079D14FD743F.
- Stauffer, Jay Richard Jr. & J.K. McCrary & K.E. Black. 2008. "Three new species of cichlid fishes (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Apoyo, Nicaragua". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. v. 121 (no. 1); pp.117–129 (crc01552) (abstract)
Conservation: Amphilophus chancho is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.