Original description as Crenicichla monicae:
ZooBank:2D27E9F0-CC62-40DC-8F69-ADCD152C8145.
- Kullander, Sven & H.R. Varella. 2015. "Wallace’s pike cichlid gets a name after 160 years: A new species of cichlid fish (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the upper Rio Negro in Brazil". Copeia. v. 103(n. 3), pp. 512-519. DOI: 10.1643/CI-14-169 (crc06795) (abstract)
Conservation: Crenicichla monicae is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.