Original description as Apistogramma uaupesi:
ZooBank:78BA0A72-4619-4BE0-BF07-82288729D7AB.
- 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 uaupesi is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.