Original description:
- Pellegrin, Jacques. 1904. "Contribution à l'étude anatomique, biologique et taxonomique des poissons de la famille des Cichlidés - Taxinomie". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 121-400 (crc00027) (abstract)
Type species: Lamprologus elongatus Boulenger, 1898 (monotypy).
Described species included (15):
valid: 11 synonym: 4- Lamprologus elongatus Boulenger, 1898 (valid)
- Lamprologus hecqui Boulenger, 1899 (valid)
- Lamprologus attenuatus Steindachner, 1909 (valid)
- Julidochromis boulengeri Steindachner, 1909 (valid)
- Lamprologus pleurostigma Boulenger, 1914 (synonym)
- Lamprologus cunningtoni nyassae Borodin, 1936 (synonym)
- Lamprologus meeli Poll, 1948 (valid)
- Lamprologus profundicola Poll, 1949 (valid)
- Lamprologus pleuromaculatus Trewavas & Poll, 1952 (valid)
- Lamprologus kendalli Poll & Stewart, 1977 (valid)
- Lamprologus nkambae Staeck, 1978 (synonym)
- Lamprologus kiritvaithai Meyer, Foerster & Dieckhoff , 1986 (synonym)
- Neolamprologus variostigma Büscher, 1995 (valid)
- Lepidiolamprologus mimicus Schelly, Takahashi, Bills & Hori, 2007 (valid)
- Lepidiolamprologus kamambae Kullander, Karlsson & Karlsson, 2012 (valid)
Potentially undescribed species (3):
- sp. 'meeli kipili' (undescribed)
- sp. 'meeli southeast' (undescribed)
- sp. 'hecqui mahale' (undescribed)