Original description as Haplochromis bareli:
ZooBank:617C9CAD-F395-4E77-AB6C-7F8A88A3D382.
- van Oijen, Martien J.P. 1991. "A systematic revision of the piscivorous haplochromine Cichlidae (Pisces: Teleostei) of Lake Victoria (East Africa) Part 1". Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden). n. 272; p. 1-95 (crc01033) (abstract)
Conservation: Haplochromis bareli is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (CR) critically endangered (2010).