Original description:
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1898. "Report on the fishes recently obtained by Mr. J. E. S. Moore in Lake Tanganyika". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 3:494-497 (crc00006)
Type species: Tropheus moorii Boulenger, 1898.
Described species included (6):
valid: 4 sub-species: 1 synonym: 1- Tropheus moorii Boulenger, 1898 (valid)
- Tropheus annectens Boulenger, 1900 (valid)
- Tropheus duboisi Marlier, 1959 (valid)
- Tropheus brichardi Nelissen & Thys Van Den Audenaerde, 1975 (valid)
- Tropheus moorii kasabae Nelissen, 1977 (sub-species)
- Tropheus polli Axelrod, 1977 (synonym)
Potentially undescribed species (6):
- sp. 'black' (undescribed)
- sp. 'mpimbwe' (undescribed)
- sp. 'ikola' (undescribed)
- sp. 'red' (undescribed)
- sp. 'viridescens' (undescribed)
- sp. 'maculatus' (undescribed)