Original description as Chalinochromis popelini:
ZooBank:FC3A756B-39F9-4116-8BA7-C5C33B9B2089.
- Brichard, Pierre. 1989. "Pierre Brichard's book of cichlids and all the other fishes of Lake Tanganyika". TFH Publications. 1-544 (crc00025)
Conservation: Chalinochromis popelini is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.