Original description as Apistogramma ortmanni rupununi:
ZooBank:3A95ED94-4E91-430C-9768-47508AC895B4.
- Fowler, Henry W. 1914. "Fishes from the Rupununi River, British Guiana". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 66:229-284 (crc01206)
Conservation: Apistogramma rupununi is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.