Original description as Apistogramma meinkeni:
ZooBank:729CBD3E-1291-45C2-8CC3-A60F71EE8EA2.
- Kullander, Sven. 1980. "A taxonomical study of the genus Apistogramma Regan, with a revision of Brazilian and Peruvian species (Teleostei: Percoidei: Cichlidae)". Bonner Zoologische Monographien. 1-152 (crc00334)
Conservation: Apistogramma meinkeni is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.