Original description as Apistogramma pulchra:
ZooBank:2FABBF37-8757-46AD-A3D5-5244E2832238.
- 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 pulchra is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.