Original description as Lamprologus tretocephalus:
ZooBank:77CF1058-0243-4B55-805E-F922527047EB.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1899. "Matériaux pour la faune du Congo. Poissons nouveaux du Congo. Cinquième Partie. Cyprins, Silures, Cyprinodontes, Acanthoptérygiens". Annales du Musée du Congo Belge. Zoologique 1:122 (crc00130)
Conservation: Neolamprologus tretocephalus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).