Original description as Gymnogeophagus meridionalis:
ZooBank:E19DA581-2C28-4DAD-8DED-965A55073765.
- Reis, Roberto E & L.R. Malabarba. 1988. "Revision of the neotropical cichlid genus Gymnogeophagus Ribeiro, 1918, with descriptions of two new species (Pisces, Perciformes)". Revista Bras. Zool.. 259-305 (crc00082)
Conservation: Gymnogeophagus meridionalis is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.