Original description as Acara pallidus:
ZooBank:27533106-B7B3-42DE-8437-AA08C48AA173.
- Heckel, Johann Jakob. 1840. "Johann Natterer's neue Flussfische Brasilien's nach den Beobachtungen und Mittheilungen des Entdeckers beschrieben (Erste Abtheilung, Die Labroiden)". Annalen des Wiener Museums der Naturgeschichte. 325-471 (crc00007)
Synonyms (1):
- Centrarchus vittatus Jardine, 1843, with type locality at Unknown locality. No types known. Determiner: Kullander, 2003
- Aequidens duopunctata Haseman, 1911, with type locality at Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Determiner: Kullander, 2003
Conservation: Aequidens pallidus is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.