Original description as Crenicichla multispinosa:
ZooBank:CEBA82B8-25E1-4981-A714-81A5B8A2B525.
- Pellegrin, Jacques. 1903. "Description de Cichlidés nouveaux de la collection du Muséum". Bulletin du Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle. pp. 120-125 (crc00260)
Conservation: Crenicichla multispinosa is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.