Original description as Mesonauta guyanae:
ZooBank:E70CCAE2-F748-4DAA-AF8E-5D85C055608A.
- Schindler, Ingo. 1998. "Mesonauta guyanae spec. nov., a new cichlid fish from the Guyana Shield, South America (Teleostei: Cichlidae)". Zeitschrift Fischk. 3-12 (crc00959)
Conservation: Mesonauta guyanae is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.