Original description as Apistogramma cacatuoides:
ZooBank:8CAE3527-E695-442A-A162-802A5A375EC3.
- Hoedeman, Jacobus Johannes. 1951. "Notes on the fishes of the cichlid family I. Apistogramma cacatuoides sp. n". Beaufortia. 1-4 (crc00342)
Conservation: Apistogramma cacatuoides is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.