最初的描述(命名) :
- 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)
模式物種: Tropheus moorii Boulenger, 1898.
已描述(命名)的物種包括 (6):
有效: 4 亞種: 1 同義字: 1- Tropheus moorii Boulenger, 1898 (有效)
- Tropheus annectens Boulenger, 1900 (有效)
- Tropheus duboisi Marlier, 1959 (有效)
- Tropheus brichardi Nelissen & Thys Van Den Audenaerde, 1975 (有效)
- Tropheus moorii kasabae Nelissen, 1977 (亞種)
- Tropheus polli Axelrod, 1977 (同義字)
潛在的未定種 (6):
- sp. 'black' (未描述)
- sp. 'mpimbwe' (未描述)
- sp. 'ikola' (未描述)
- sp. 'red' (未描述)
- sp. 'viridescens' (未描述)
- sp. 'maculatus' (未描述)