Original description as Apistogramma lineata:
ZooBank:989A35C9-2870-4632-91D8-6F419B4F07CB.
- 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 lineata is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.