Original description:
- Stauffer, Jay Richard Jr. & Kenneth R. McKaye. 1988. "Description of a genus and three deep water species of fishes (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Malawi, Africa". Copeia. 1988(2):441-449 (crc00218) (abstract)
Type species: Alticorpus mentale Stauffer & McKaye, 1988 (original designation).
Described species included (7):
valid: 5 synonym: 2- Trematocranus peterdaviesi Burgess & Axelrod, 1973 (valid)
- Cleithrochromis bowleyi Eccles, 1974 (synonym)
- Cyrtocara macrocleithrum Stauffer & McKaye, 1985 (valid)
- Alticorpus mentale Stauffer & McKaye, 1988 (valid)
- Alticorpus pectinatum Stauffer & McKaye, 1988 (synonym)
- Alticorpus profundicola Stauffer & McKaye, 1988 (valid)
- Alticorpus geoffreyi Snoeks & Walapa, 2004 (valid)
Potentially undescribed species (4):
- sp. 'bicusp bis' (undescribed)
- sp. 'bicusp small-scale' (undescribed)
- sp. 'deep bicusp' (undescribed)
- sp. 'mentale bicusp' (undescribed)