Original description as Chromis brasiliensis:
ZooBank:BBB40A03-C8F4-4FB2-AE69-2C22E089EACB.
- Quoy, J.R.C. & P. Gaimard. 1824. "Chapitre 9 - Poissons". Voyage autour du monde executé sur les corvettes de SM "L'Uranie" et "La Physicienne" pendant les années 1817-1820, Zoologie. pp 286-287 (crc00022)
Synonyms (2):
- Chromys unimaculata Castelnau , 1855, with type locality at Near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Determiner: Gosse, 1976
- Acara gymnopoma Günther, 1862, with type locality at Brazil. Determiner: Gosse, 1976
- Geophagus brasiliensis Kner, 1869, with type locality at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Determiner: Kullander, 2003
- Acara minuta Hensel , 1870, with type locality at Pool in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul State, southern Brazil. Determiner: Gosse, 1976
Conservation: Geophagus brasiliensis is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.