Original description:
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1899. "Second contribution to the ichthyology of Lake Tanganyika - On the fishes obtained by the Congo Free State Expedition under Lieut. Lemaire in 1898". Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 15(4):87–96 (crc00043)
Type species: Xenotilapia sima Boulenger, 1899.
Synonyms:
- Parectodus Poll, 1942. Determiner: Maréchal, Chantal, 1991
- Stappersetta Whitley, 1950. Determiner: Daget , Jacques, 1991
Described species included (16):
valid: 14 synonym: 2- Xenotilapia sima Boulenger, 1899 (valid)
- Xenotilapia ornatipinnis Boulenger, 1901 (valid)
- Enantiopus ochrogenys Boulenger, 1914 (valid)
- Stappersia singularis Boulenger, 1914 (valid)
- Enantiopus boulengeri Poll, 1942 (valid)
- Parectodus lestradei Poll, 1942 (synonym)
- Xenotilapia materfamilias Poll , 1943 (synonym)
- Xenotilapia longispinis burtoni Poll, 1951 (valid)
- Xenotilapia caudafasciata Poll, 1951 (valid)
- Xenotilapia longispinis Poll, 1951 (valid)
- Xenotilapia nigrolabiata Poll, 1951 (valid)
- Xenotilapia ochrogenys bathyphilus Poll, 1956 (valid)
- Xenotilapia spilopterus Poll & Stewart, 1975 (valid)
- Xenotilapia flavipinnis Poll, 1985 (valid)
- Xenotilapia papilio Büscher, 1990 (valid)
- Xenotilapia nasus De Vos, Risch & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1995 (valid)
Potentially undescribed species (2):
- sp. 'bathyphilus yellow' (undescribed)
- sp. 'papilio sunflower' (undescribed)