Original description as Crenicichla yjhui:
- Piálek, Lubomír & Jorge Casciotta, Adriana Almirón, Oldřich Říčan. 2018. "A new pelagic predatory pike cichlid (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Crenicichla) from the C. mandelburgeri species complex with parallel and reticulate evolution". Hydrobiologia. pp. 1–19. DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s10750-018-3754-1 (crc08909) (abstract)
Conservation: Crenicichla yjhui is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.