Original description as Pseudotropheus tropheops:
ZooBank:F1CF72DF-DFA6-467C-BEFC-1361E704ED82.
- Regan, Charles Tate. 1922. "The Cichlid Fishes of Lake Nyassa". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1921(pt 4)36:675-727 (crc00066)
Conservation: Tropheops tropheops is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2018).