Original description as Lamprologus prochilus:
ZooBank:9BDF29F1-ACC3-4E52-9B80-9807D7CFF753.
- Bailey, Reeve M & D.J. Stewart. 1977. "Cichlid fishes from Lake Tanganyika: additions to the Zambian fauna including two new species". Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. (679):30 (crc00150)
Conservation: Neolamprologus prochilus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).