Original description as Crenicichla dandara:
ZooBank:32ABD9B9-6BC5-4CB6-AE7D-1A2AF42C4F4E.
- Varella, Henrique Rosa & P.M.M. Ito. 2018. "Crenicichla dandara, new species: the black jacundá from the Rio Xingu (Teleostei: Cichlidae)". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 166(1):1-12. DOI: 10.1635/053.166.0104 (crc08498) (abstract)
Conservation: Lugubria dandara is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.