Original description as Leptolamprologus monogramma:
ZooBank:E9C30257-B4CA-4BC2-A61B-0D7E2781FBB2.
- Pellegrin, Jacques. 1927. "Description de Cichlidés et d'un Mugilidé nouveaux du Congo belge". Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines. 15(1)52-57 (crc00046)
Conservation: Teleogramma monogramma is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (VU) vulnerable (2009).