Original description as Apistogramma urteagai:
ZooBank:5913AB29-6803-4712-BA08-8E0D594C64D7.
- Kullander, Sven. 1986. "Cichlid Fishes of the Amazon River Drainage of Peru". Swedish Museum of Natural History. Cichlids Amazon. 1-431 (crc00282)
Conservation: Apistogramma urteagai is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2016).