Original description as Aulonocara saulosi:
ZooBank:9D11AFBE-AD0D-4017-B6DF-17CA46A19ED2.
- Meyer, Manfred & R. Riehl, H. Zetzsche. 1987. "A revision of the cichlid fishes of the genus Aulonocara Regan, 1922 from Lake Malawi, with descriptions of six new species (Pisces, Perciformes, Cichlidae).". Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg. 7-53 (crc00062)
Conservation: Aulonocara saulosi is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006). I agree that this species, although rather uncommon at all locations, does not seem to be threatened.