Original description as Lamprologus sexfasciatus:
ZooBank:8AF39938-4B0D-4A3A-BB6F-D86182B16A0D.
- Trewavas, Ethelwynn & M. Poll. 1952. "Three new species and two new subspecies of the genus Lamprologus, Cichlid fishes of Lake Tanganyika". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. 28 (50); pp 1-16 (crc00055)
Conservation: Neolamprologus sexfasciatus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).