Original description as Aequidens superomaculatum:
ZooBank:5031C87B-3CDB-4E0F-9387-50CC58B5F2B2.
- Hernández-Acevedo, Jaime H & J.A. Machado-Allison, C.A. Lasso. 2015. "Aequidens superomaculatum (Teleostei: Cichlidae) una nueva especie del alto Orinoco y Río Negro, Venezuela". Biota Colombiana. 16(2):96-106 (crc07314) (abstract)
Conservation: Aequidens superomaculatus is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.