Original description as Acara coeruleopunctata:
ZooBank:C97BE264-2AEE-42EE-81A6-00307B32D067.
- Kner, Rudolf & F. Steindachner. 1863. "Eine Uebersicht der ichthyologischen Ausbeute des Herrn Professors Dr. Mor. Wagner in Central-Amerika". Sitzungsberichte der Königlichen Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, München. Vol. 2: pp. 220-230 (crc00036)
Conservation: Andinoacara coeruleopunctatus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2019).