Original description as Apistogramma flabellicauda:
ZooBank:1B749AC3-1EB4-4205-831D-70BB3F2EF241.
- 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. 1-192 (crc04790) (abstract)
Conservation: Apistogramma flabellicauda is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.