Considerato un sinonimo junior di Saxatilia brasiliensis (Bloch, 1792)
- Varella, Henrique Rosa & M.V. Loeb, F.C.T. Lima, S.O. Kullander. 2018. "Crenicichla ploegi, a new species of pike-cichlid of the C. saxatilis group from the Rio Juruena and upper Rio Paraguai basins in Brazil, with an updated diagnosis and biogeographical comments on the group (Teleostei: Cichlidae)". Zootaxa. 4377(3):361–386. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4377.3.3 (crc08403) (riassunto)
Descrizione originale come Crenicichla menezesi:
ZooBank:C0B84360-958A-4A8C-9B61-95C0CA4BB17F.
- Ploeg, Alex. 1991. "Revision of the South American cichlid genus Crenicichla Heckel, 1840, with description of fifteen new species and consideration on species groups, phylogeny and biogeography (Pisces, Perciformes, Cichlidae)". Univ. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 1-153 (crc01043)