Original description as Apistogramma hoignei:
ZooBank:11FE4953-CB3B-4F19-898D-EB6E9521A3A6.
- Meinken, Hermann. 1965. "Eine neue Apistogramma-Art aus Venezuela (Pisces, Percoidea, Cichlidae)". Senckenbergiana biologica. 46(4):257-263 (crc01193)
Conservation: Apistogramma hoignei is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.