Original description as Apistogramma piaroa:
ZooBank:63BC7207-D22E-4115-954E-51AE53239DC5.
- Mesa Salazar, Lina M & C.A. Lasso. 2011. "III. Revisión del género Apistogramma Regan, 1913 (Perciformes, Cichlidae) en la cuenca del río Orinoco". Serie Editorial Recursos Hidrobiológicas y Pesqueros Continentales de Colombia. pp. 1-192 (crc04790) (abstract)
Conservation: Apistogramma piaroa is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.