Original description as Crenicichla vaillanti:
ZooBank:6BF2549B-F6CE-4475-969B-9D93F58FE1D8.
- 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 vaillanti is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.