Original description as Cichlasoma tuyrense:
ZooBank:00A9A4E9-EADB-4AEC-979D-395ED96DC738.
- Meek, Seth Eugene & S. F. Hildebrand. 1913. "New species of fishes from Panama". Field Museum of Natural History. Publication 166; Zoology series 7 (3); pp; 77-91 (crc00139)
Conservation: Isthmoheros tuyrensis is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (VU) vulnerable (2019).