Original description as Telmatochromis vittatus:
ZooBank:47D3EDD7-C0D1-47C7-A8E4-C596CB474C48.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1898. "Report on the fishes recently obtained by Mr. J. E. S. Moore in Lake Tanganyika". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 3:494-497 (crc00006)
Conservation: Telmatochromis vittatus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).