Original description as Crenicichla lucenai:
- Mattos, José L & I. Schindler, F.P. Ottoni & M.M. Cheffe. 2014. "A new species of Crenicichla from the upper Rio das Antas basin, dos Patos lagoon system, southern Brazil (Teleostei: Cichlidae)". Vertebrate Zoology. v. 64(n. 1), pp. 35-42 (crc06185) (abstract)
Conservation: Crenicichla lucenai is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.