Considered a synonym of Astatotilapia nubila (Boulenger, 1906)
- Trewavas, Ethelwynn. 1946. "The types of African cichlid fishes described by Borodin in 1931 and 1936, and of two species described by Boulenger in 1901". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 116(2):240-246. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1946.tb00121.x (crc01695)
Original description as Haplochromis centropristoides victorianus:
ZooBank:E58F5A5C-1C17-45B0-B269-A96A6F5C9D74.
- Borodin, Nikolai A.. 1936. "On a collection of freshwater fishes from lakes Nyasa, Tanganyika and Viktoria in Central Afrika". Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik (Jena). 68(1):1-34 (crc01163)