Décrit initialement sous Haplochromis micrentodon:
ZooBank:1A2DEACB-A1BD-4C9F-A138-C31AE0F56AB7.
- 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: Lethrinops micrentodon est évalué par l\'Union Internationale pour la Conservation de la Nature dans la Liste Rouge des espèces menacées comme étant (DD) Insuffisance de données (2018). L. micrentodon suffered a recorded decline in fishery catches in the southern part of the lake of more than 70% in the 1990s. Since 2000 the only research trawl outside of the southern arms of the lake in 2016 did not record the species. It was also not recorded in the 2007 survey of the southeast arm (Phiri et al., 2018).