Original description:
- Li, Shan & A.F. Konings, J.R. Stauffer. 2016. "A revision of the Pseudotropheus elongatus species group (Teleostei: Cichlidae) with description of a new genus and seven new species". Zootaxa. 4168(2):1-29. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4168.2.9 (crc07492) (abstract)
Type species: Chindongo bellicosus Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016 (original designation).
Described species included (11):
valid: 11- Pseudotropheus elongatus Fryer, 1956 (valid)
- Pseudotropheus minutus Fryer, 1956 (valid)
- Pseudotropheus socolofi Johnson, 1974 (valid)
- Pseudotropheus heteropictus Staeck, 1980 (valid)
- Pseudotropheus ater Stauffer, 1988 (valid)
- Pseudotropheus cyaneus Stauffer, 1988 (valid)
- Pseudotropheus flavus Stauffer, 1988 (valid)
- Pseudotropheus saulosi Konings, 1990 (valid)
- Pseudotropheus demasoni Konings, 1994 (valid)
- Pseudotropheus longior Seegers, 1996 (valid)
- Chindongo bellicosus Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016 (valid)
Potentially undescribed species (19):
- sp. 'elongatus mphanga' (undescribed)
- sp. 'elongatus brown' (undescribed)
- sp. 'elongatus ornatus' (undescribed)
- sp. 'aggressive brown' (undescribed)
- sp. 'aggressive zebra likoma' (undescribed)
- sp. 'aggressive zebra mbenji' (undescribed)
- sp. 'burrower' (undescribed)
- sp. 'elongatus masimbwe' (undescribed)
- sp. 'elongatus mbenji brown' (undescribed)
- sp. 'elongatus mozambique brown' (undescribed)
- sp. 'elongatus nkhata blue' (undescribed)
- sp. 'elongatus nkhata brown' (undescribed)
- sp. 'elongatus ornatus tanzania' (undescribed)
- sp. 'elongatus ruarwe' (undescribed)
- sp. 'elongatus spot' (undescribed)
- sp. 'elongatus thumbi' (undescribed)
- sp. 'fuscus dwarf' (undescribed)
- sp. 'minutus mozambique' (undescribed)
- sp. 'perspicax yellow breast' (undescribed)