Vaillantella euepiptera was first formally described as Nemacheilus euepipterus in 1902 by the French zoologist Léon Vaillant with its type locality given as Pontianak on the Kapuas River on Borneo.

[5] Vailantella euepiptera is the type species of the genus Vaillantella a name which honours Léon Vaillant, the describer of this species, in recognition of this "distinguished ichthyologist of the Museum of Natural History of Paris, and well known for his researches in East Indian ichthyology".

[2] The overall colour is brown with many small spots on the upper body and pale on the ventral surface with a slnder, plate stripe running along the flanks.

Another rather dark stripe uns from the snout through the lower part of the eye, over the operculum and to the origin of the lateral line.

This loach Tis found in sizeable streams where the substrate consists of clay or other soft materials.