Original description as Chromys thumbergi:
ZooBank:9939F2B7-D1F0-4115-9768-591FD134B318.
- de Laporte de Castelnau, Francis. 1861. "Mémoire sur les poissons de l'Afrique australe". J.- B. Baillière et Fils, Paris. i-vii + 1-78 (crc00710)
Conservation: Serranochromis thumbergi is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2009).