Original description as Crenicichla taikyra:
- Casciotta, Jorge & A. Almirón, D. Aichino, S. Gómez, L. Piálek & O. Říčan. 2013. "Crenicichla taikyra (Teleostei: Cichlidae), a new species of pike cichlid from the middle río Paraná, Argentina". Zootaxa. v. 3721(n. 4), pp. 379 – 386. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3721.4.5 (crc05740) (abstract)
Conservation: Crenicichla taikyra is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.