Original description as Apistogramma moae:
ZooBank:99702AD9-0536-47E2-ADC4-35A944F9F83C.
- 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 moae is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.