Original description:
- Colombé, Jean & R. Allgayer. 1985. "Description de Variabilichromis, Neolamprologus et Paleolamprologus genres nouveaux du Lac Tanganyika, avec redescription des genres Lamprologus Schilthuis, 1891 et Lepidiolamprologus Pellegrin, 1904". Revue Française des Cichlidophiles. (49):9-28 (crc00133)
Type species: Lamprologus tetracanthus Boulenger, 1899 (original designation).
Described species included (44):
valid: 41 sub-species: 1 synonym: 2- Lamprologus furcifer Boulenger, 1898 (valid)
- Lamprologus modestus Boulenger, 1898 (valid)
- Lamprologus tetracanthus Boulenger, 1899 (valid)
- Lamprologus tretocephalus Boulenger, 1899 (valid)
- Lamprologus cunningtoni Boulenger, 1906 (valid)
- Lamprologus brevianalis Boulenger, 1906 (synonym)
- Lamprologus mondabu Boulenger, 1906 (valid)
- Lamprologus marginatus Boulenger, 1914 (synonym)
- Lamprologus savoryi Poll, 1949 (valid)
- Lamprologus wauthioni Poll, 1949 (valid)
- Lamprologus petricola Poll, 1949 (valid)
- Lamprologus signatus Poll, 1952 (valid)
- Lamprologus christyi Trewavas & Poll, 1952 (valid)
- Lamprologus sexfasciatus Trewavas & Poll, 1952 (valid)
- Lamprologus kungweensis Poll, 1956 (valid)
- Lamprologus leleupi Poll, 1956 (valid)
- Lamprologus niger Poll, 1956 (valid)
- Lamprologus savoryi pulcher Trewavas & Poll, 1972 (valid)
- Lamprologus brichardi Poll, 1974 (valid)
- Lamprologus schreyeni Poll, 1974 (valid)
- Lamprologus prochilus Bailey & Stewart, 1977 (valid)
- Lamprologus mustax Poll, 1978 (valid)
- Lamprologus obscurus Poll, 1978 (valid)
- Lamprologus leleupi longior Staeck, 1980 (sub-species)
- Lamprologus buescheri Staeck, 1982 (valid)
- Neolamprologus cylindricus Staeck & Seegers, 1986 (valid)
- Lamprologus crassus Brichard, 1989 (valid)
- Lamprologus falcicula Brichard, 1989 (valid)
- Lamprologus gracilis Brichard, 1989 (valid)
- Lamprologus splendens Brichard, 1989 (valid)
- Lamprologus olivaceous Brichard, 1989 (valid)
- Neolamprologus marunguensis Büscher, 1989 (valid)
- Neolamprologus pectoralis Büscher, 1991 (valid)
- Neolamprologus nigriventris Büscher, 1992 (valid)
- Neolamprologus bifasciatus Büscher, 1993 (valid)
- Neolamprologus ventralis Büscher, 1995 (valid)
- Neolamprologus longicaudatus Nakaya & Gashagaza, 1995 (valid)
- Neolamprologus helianthus Büscher, 1997 (valid)
- Lamprologus laparogramma Bills & Ribbink, 1997 (valid)
- Neolamprologus devosi Schelly, Stiassny & Seegers, 2003 (valid)
- Neolamprologus cancellatus Aibara, Takahashi & Nakaya, 2005 (valid)
- Neolamprologus walteri Verburg & Bills, 2007 (valid)
- Neolamprologus chitamwebwai Verburg & Bills, 2007 (valid)
- Neolamprologus timidus Kullander, Norén, Karlsson & Karlsson, 2014 (valid)
Potentially undescribed species (6):
- sp. 'eseki' (undescribed)
- sp. 'falcicula cygnus' (undescribed)
- sp. 'leleupi kapampa' (undescribed)
- sp. 'pectoralis elongate' (undescribed)
- sp. 'kombe' (undescribed)
- sp. 'benthosplendens' (undescribed)
Species groups:
- Brichardi (Poll, 1986)
sp. 'eseki', savoryi, pulcher, crassus, falcicula, gracilis, splendens, olivaceous, marunguensis, helianthus, walteri, chitamwebwai,