Original description as Apistogramma helkeri:
ZooBank:27586FA4-FBDA-4195-BC25-97A343B7D7E0.
- Schindler, Ingo & Wolfgang Staeck. 2013. "Description of Apistogramma helkeri sp. n., a new geophagine dwarf cichlid (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the lower río Cuao (Orinoco drainage) in Venezuela". Vertebrate Zoology. 63(3):301-306 (crc06068) (abstract)
Conservation: Apistogramma helkeri is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (DD) data deficient (2017).