Original description as Acara zamorensis:
ZooBank:E52832FB-9A82-4762-8518-76801723BF85.
- Regan, Charles Tate. 1905. "A revision of the fishes of the South-American cichlid genera Acara, Nannacara, Acaropsis, and Astronotus". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 7) v. 15: pp. 329-347 (crc00016)
Conservation: Bujurquina zamorensis is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2016).