Original description as Crenicichla macrophthalma:
ZooBank:AF8CAEF6-7EA1-41F2-BFB2-CDC1F997E80C.
- Heckel, Johann Jakob. 1840. "Johann Natterer's neue Flussfische Brasilien's nach den Beobachtungen und Mittheilungen des Entdeckers beschrieben (Erste Abtheilung, Die Labroiden)". Annalen des Wiener Museums der Naturgeschichte. pp 325-471 (crc00007)
Synonyms (1):
- Crenicichla santaremensis Haseman , 1911, with type locality at Lagoon along margin of Amazon, 3 miles above Santarém, Pará, Brazil. Determiner: Ploeg, 1991
Conservation: Crenicichla macrophthalma is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2009).