Original description as Apistogramma velifera:
ZooBank:6706C953-5870-4374-975C-CDF368E7C72C.
- Staeck, Wolfgang. 2003. "Cichliden Lexikon, Teil 3: Südamerikanische Zwergbuntbarsche". Dähne Verlag, Ettlingen, Germany. 3:219 p (crc00995)
Conservation: Apistogramma velifera is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (VU) vulnerable (2020). There are plausible present and future threats to the distribution of Apistogramma velifera. The geographical distribution of the species is restricted to the Inírida River Star region and the confluence of the Orinoco-Ventuari delta. There are only eight records of collection of the species and it is only registered in five threat-based locations in the Orinoco-Ventuari confluence. The Venezuelan population faces an exponential deterioration of the habitat (from Mesa Salazar, 2022).