Original description as Apistogramma linkei:
ZooBank:57641704-3590-403E-B3C5-DCD2B5871F3A.
- Koslowski, Ingo. 1985. "Descriptions of new species of Apistogramma (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the Rio Mamoré system in Bolivia". Bonner Zoologische Beiträge. 36:ns1-2:145-162 (crc01194)
Conservation: Apistogramma linkei is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2016).