Original description as Crenicichla yjhui:
ZooBank:84F70ED1-FA95-44C1-9945-6153F89BDE7B.
- Piálek, Lubomír & Jorge Casciotta, Adriana Almirón, Oldrich Rícan. 2018. "A new pelagic predatory pike cichlid (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Crenicichla) from the C. mandelburgeri species complex with parallel and reticulate evolution". Hydrobiologia. (832):1-19. DOI: 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.