Original description:
- Regan, Charles Tate. 1920. "The Classification of the Fishes of the Family Cichlidae.-I. The Tanganyika Genera". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. [Series 9]5:25:33-53 (crc00028)
Type species: Paratilapia macrops Boulenger, 1898 (original designation).
Described species included (8):
valid: 3 synonym: 5- Paratilapia macrops Boulenger, 1898 (valid)
- Pelmatochromis melanostigma Boulenger, 1906 (valid)
- Pelmatochromis pleurospilus Boulenger, 1906 (valid)
- Pelmatochromis rhodostigma Boulenger, 1906 (synonym)
- Pelmatochromis stappersii Boulenger, 1914 (synonym)
- Pelmatochromis xenotilapiaformis Borodin, 1931 (synonym)
- Tylochromis macrophthalmus David, 1936 (synonym)
- Ectodus descampsii ornatipinnis Borodin, 1936 (synonym)
Potentially undescribed species (1):
- sp. 'pleurospilus tanzania' (undescribed)