Original description as Paratilapia nigripinnis:
ZooBank:F875D702-7F63-4D0D-9967-3FE8ECA13A69.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1901. "Diagnoses of new fishes discovered by Mr. J. E. S. Moore in lakes Tanganyika and Kivu". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. [Series 7]1-6 (crc00034)
Conservation: Paracyprichromis nigripinnis is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).