Original description as Paratilapia dewindti:
ZooBank:83DE0A18-3555-40D9-A0AE-EE925A989E54.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1899. "Second contribution to the ichthyology of Lake Tanganyika - On the fishes obtained by the Congo Free State Expedition under Lieut. Lemaire in 1898". Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 15(4):87–96 (crc00043)
Synonyms (1):
- Paratilapia lukugae Boulenger, 1919, with type locality at Lukuga River, Zaire. Determiner: Daget et al., 1991
Conservation: Aulonocranus dewindti is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).