Original description as Apistogramma caudomaculata:
ZooBank:5E40CE81-B4E7-4730-8094-0F6025B4AE3C.
- 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 caudomaculata is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2019).