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: Sparus desfontainii Lacepède, 1802 (subsequent designation).
Described species included (40):
valid: 28 synonym: 12- Sparus desfontainii Lacepède, 1802 (valid)
- Hemichromis bloyeti Sauvage, 1883 (valid)
- Chromis flaviijosephi Lortet, 1883 (valid)
- Chromis burtoni Günther, 1893 (valid)
- Ctenochromis strigigena Pfeffer, 1893 (synonym)
- Chromis callipterus Günther, 1894 (valid)
- Hemichromis gigliolii Pfeffer, 1896 (valid)
- Tilapia desfontainesi Boulenger, 1899 (synonym)
- Tilapia fuelleborni Hilgendorf & Pappenheim, 1903 (valid)
- Tilapia (Ctenochromis) sparsidens Hilgendorf, 1905 (synonym)
- Tilapia nubila Boulenger, 1906 (valid)
- Paratilapia cinerea Boulenger, 1906 (valid)
- Tilapia lacrimosa Boulenger, 1906 (valid)
- Tilapia martini Boulenger, 1906 (valid)
- Tilapia swynnertoni Boulenger, 1907 (synonym)
- Tilapia macrops Boulenger, 1911 (valid)
- Tilapia pallida Boulenger, 1911 (valid)
- Astatotilapia roberti Pellegrin, 1913 (valid)
- Paratilapia kilossana Steindachner, 1914 (synonym)
- Paratilapia vollmeringi Steindachner, 1914 (synonym)
- Haplochromis eduardi Regan, 1922 (valid)
- Haplochromis melanopus Regan, 1922 (valid)
- Haplochromis latifasciatus Regan, 1929 (valid)
- Haplochromis centropristoides Nichols & La Monte, 1931 (synonym)
- Tilapia nadinae Borodin , 1931 (synonym)
- Haplochromis dolorosus Trewavas, 1933 (valid)
- Haplochromis elegans Trewavas, 1933 (valid)
- Haplochromis engystoma Trewavas, 1933 (valid)
- Haplochromis velifer Trewavas, 1933 (valid)
- Haplochromis centropristoides victorianus Borodin, 1936 (synonym)
- Neochromis simotes nyassae Borodin , 1936 (synonym)
- Haplochromis stappersii Poll, 1943 (valid)
- Haplochromis brownae Greenwood, 1962 (valid)
- Haplochromis barbarae Greenwood, 1967 (valid)
- Haplochromis aeneocolor Greenwood, 1973 (valid)
- Haplochromis schubotziellus Greenwood, 1973 (valid)
- Astatotilapia paludinosa Greenwood, 1980 (synonym)
- Astatotilapia tweddlei Jackson, 1985 (synonym)
- Haplochromis katavi Seegers, 1996 (valid)
- Astatotilapia tchadensis Trape, 2016 (valid)
Potentially undescribed species (12):
- sp. 'red tail' (undescribed)
- sp. 'spot bar' (undescribed)
- sp. 'calliptera chizumulu' (undescribed)
- sp. 'ruaha blue' (undescribed)
- sp. 'kingiri black' (undescribed)
- sp. 'ilamba black' (undescribed)
- sp. 'ikapu dark' (undescribed)
- sp. 'itamba dark' (undescribed)
- sp. 'massoko benthic' (undescribed)
- sp. 'massoko littoral' (undescribed)
- sp. 'itende' (undescribed)
- sp. 'wrought iron' (undescribed)