Original description as Apistogramma macmasteri:
ZooBank:1CC7A739-DA6C-4B03-82BC-1600DCDDC7C3.
- Kullander, Sven. 1979. "Species of Apistogramma (Teleostei, Cichlidae) from the Orinoco drainage basin, South America, with descriptions of four new species". Zoologica Scripta. 8(1):69-79. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1979.tb006 (crc00348) (abstract)
Conservation: Apistogramma macmasteri is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.