Original description as Geophagus multiocellus:
ZooBank:873C4147-778E-4798-A8C8-FD89EE459969.
- Mattos, José L & W.J.E.M. Costa. 2018. "Three new species of the ‘Geophagus’ brasiliensis species group from the northeast Brazil (Cichlidae, Geophagini)". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 94(2):325-337. DOI: 10.3897/zse.94.22685 (crc08536) (abstract)
Conservation: Geophagus multiocellus is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.