Original description as Apistogramma aguarico:
ZooBank:5CD7573A-584D-4E8C-9024-B271ED990CBA.
- Römer, Uwe & I. Hahn. 2013. "Apistogramma aguarico sp. n.: A new species of geophagine cichlid fish (Teleostei: Perciformes) from the Ecuadorian and Peruvian río Napo system". Vertebrate Zoology. 63(2):171-181 (crc05735) (abstract)
Conservation: Apistogramma aguarico is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.