The Apistogramma salpinction lives in the benthopelagic, freshwater environment.
Conservation: Apistogramma salpinction is not evaluated by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2008). More
The first of the new cichlid species, Apistogramma salpinction, comes from the relatively typical apisto habitat of still or lentic waters, but the other one Apistogramma angayuara, is rather more unusual. More
Apistogramma salpinction is described from lentic habitats at the margin of road BR-163, circa 70 km from Cachoeira Porteira village, in a swamp most probably connected to the igarap More