Original description as Acara viridis:
ZooBank:0DB48C0E-5954-4A4D-BA3F-86712BEEDCD7.
- Heckel, Johann Jakob. 1840. "Johann Natterer's neue Flussfische Brasilien's nach den Beobachtungen und Mittheilungen des Entdeckers beschrieben (Erste Abtheilung, Die Labroiden)". Annalen des Wiener Museums der Naturgeschichte. 325-471 (crc00007)
Synonyms (1):
- Aequidens awani Haseman, 1911, with type locality at São Antonio de Guaporé, Rio Guaporé, Brazil. Determiner: Kullander, 2003
- Aequidens guaporensis Haseman , 1911, with type locality at São Antonio de Guaporé, Brazil. Determiner: Kullander, 2003
Conservation: Aequidens viridis is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.