Original description as Lethrinops cyrtonotus:
ZooBank:09725867-6D91-42EE-A5ED-03D7C3C0CA30.
- Trewavas, Ethelwynn. 1931. "A revision of the cichlid fishes of the genus Lethrinops Regan". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 10:7:133-152 (crc00999)
Conservation: Taeniolethrinops cyrtonotus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2018).