Original description as Geophagus pyrineusi:
ZooBank:5C57D3CD-8AFA-4FA0-8FE0-6E2E93DE012B.
- Deprá, Gabriel de Carvalho & Willian Massaharu Ohara, Hugmar Pains Silva. 2022. "Geophagus pyrineusi: a new species from the rio Teles Pires, rio Tapajós basin, Brazil (Cichliformes: Cichlidae: Geophagini)". Zootaxa. 5162 (1): 037–053. DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5162.1.2 (crc11972) (abstract)
Conservation: Geophagus pyrineusi is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species. Geophagus pyrineusi occurs in a protected area (Parque Estadual do Cristalino), where no threats were detected (Deprá et al., 2022:51).