Original description as Tylochromis bangwelensis:
ZooBank:F63E85F9-53FD-4E37-9942-8E5C2F695390.
- Regan, Charles Tate. 1920. "A revision of the African cichlid fishes of the genus Tylochromis". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser9)5:26:163-169 (crc01032)
Conservation: Tylochromis bangwelensis is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2009).