Original description as Heterogramma pleurotaenia:
ZooBank:B46CF6B2-72C1-4EEA-B11C-061CB5F782D5.
- Regan, Charles Tate. 1909. "Description of a new cichlid fish of the genus Heterogramma from La Plata". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser8)3:15:270 (crc01204)
Conservation: Apistogramma pleurotaenia is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.