Original description:
- Eccles, David H. & Ethelwynn Trewavas. 1989. "Malawian cichlid fishes. The Classification of some Haplochromine genera". Lake Fish Movies, Herten, West Germany. 1-334 (crc00063)
Type species: Haplochromis ahli Trewavas, 1935 (original designation).
Described species included (4):
valid: 4- Haplochromis ahli Trewavas, 1935 (valid)
- Sciaenochromis benthicola Konings, 1993 (valid)
- Sciaenochromis fryeri Konings, 1993 (valid)
- Sciaenochromis psammophilus Konings, 1993 (valid)
Potentially undescribed species (11):
- sp. 'nyassae' (undescribed)
- sp. 'deep' (undescribed)
- sp. 'deep water' (undescribed)
- sp. 'elongate' (undescribed)
- sp. 'spilostichus deep-water' (undescribed)
- sp. 'spilostichus makanjila' (undescribed)
- sp. 'stripe tanzania' (undescribed)
- sp. 'torpedo head' (undescribed)
- sp. 'psammophilus broad' (undescribed)
- sp. 'small interorbital' (undescribed)
- sp. 'spot bicuspid' (undescribed)