Original description as Crenicichla tesay:
- Casciotta, Jorge & A. Almiron. 2009. "Crenicichla tesay, a new species of cichlid (Perciformes: Labroidei) from the rio Iguazu basin in Argentina". Revue Suisse de Zoologie. v. 115 (no. 4) [2008]: pp. 651–659 (crc01710)
Conservation: Crenicichla tesay is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.