Original description as Plataxoides leopoldi:
ZooBank:257A9912-1BB5-4531-B3E7-B35601AD8A72.
- Gosse, Jean-Pierre. 1963. "Description de deux cichlides nouveaux de la region amazonienne". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. 39(35):2-3 (crc00069)
Conservation: Pterophyllum leopoldi is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.