Original description as Iranocichla persa:
ZooBank:B2A4CC63-A989-41F3-8E61-245E4B373B45.
- Reza Esmaeili, Hamid & G. Sayyadzadeh, O. Seehausen. 2016. "Iranocichla persa, a new cichlid species from southern Iran (Teleostei, Cichlidae)". Zookeys. (636):141-161. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.636.10571 (crc07960) (abstract)
Conservation: Iranocichla persa is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.