Original description as Apistogramma psammophila:
ZooBank:AF18F667-5FFD-4B3E-A711-49C331082C8C.
- Staeck, Wolfgang & I, Schindler. 2019. "Apistogramma psammophila – a new geophagine dwarf cichlid (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the Rio Atabapo drainage in Colombia and Venezuela". Vertebrate Zoology. 69(1):103-110. DOI: 10.26049/VZ69-1-2019-05 (crc09295) (abstract)
Conservation: Apistogramma psammophila is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.