Original description as Amphilophus bussingi:
ZooBank:2AF0CAC3-3757-4390-A1E8-F2727504C65D.
- Loiselle, Paul V. 1997. "Diagnoses of two new cichlids from the Rio Sixaola Drainage, Costa Rica". Buntbarsche Bulletin. (n. 180); p 1-8 (crc00012)
Conservation: Cribroheros bussingi is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (EN) endangered (2019).