Original description as Australoheros ricani:
- de Lucena, Carlos Alberto Santos & Sven Kullander, Michael Norén, Bárbara Calegari. 2022. "Conjectures and refutations: Species diversity and phylogeny of Australoheros from coastal rivers of southern South America (Teleostei: Cichlidae)". Plos One. 17(12):e0261027. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261027 (crc12133) (abstract)
Conservation: Australoheros ricani is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.