Original description:
- Seehausen, Ole & E. Lippitsch, N. Bouton, H. Zwennes. 1998. "Mbipi, the rock-dwelling cichlids of Lake Victoria: description of three new genera and fifteen new species". Ichthyological Explorations of Freshwaters. 9(2):129-228 (crc00316) (abstract)
Type species: Pundamilia pundamilia Seehausen & Bouton, 1998 (original designation).
Described species included (5):
valid: 5- Haplochromis nyererei Witte-Maas & Witte, 1985 (valid)
- Pundamilia pundamilia Seehausen & Bouton, 1998 (valid)
- Pundamilia azurea Seehausen & Lippitsch, 1998 (valid)
- Pundamilia igneopinnis Seehausen & Lippitsch, 1998 (valid)
- Pundamilia macrocephala Seehausen & Bouton, 1998 (valid)
Potentially undescribed species (4):
- sp. 'crimson tide' (undescribed)
- sp. 'red head zue island' (undescribed)
- sp. 'blue bar' (undescribed)
- sp. 'pink anal fin' (undescribed)