Original description as Satanoperca curupira:
ZooBank:36843B39-6306-4BCF-B5F5-67251FB6C368.
- Ota, Renata Rúbia & S.O. Kullander, G.C. Deprá, W.J. da Graça, C.A. Pavanelli. 2018. "Satanoperca curupira, a new cichlid species from the rio Madeira basin in Brazil (Teleostei: Cichlidae)". Zootaxa. 4379(1):103–112. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4379.1.6 (crc08424) (abstract)
Conservation: Satanoperca curupira is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.