Original description as Bujurquina moriorum:
ZooBank:566FA438-8CC5-4F7B-9586-BFC65C46E5CF.
- Kullander, Sven. 1986. "Cichlid Fishes of the Amazon River Drainage of Peru". Swedish Museum of Natural History. Cichlids Amazon. pp. 1-431 (crc00282)
Conservation: Bujurquina moriorum is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2016).