Original description as Plecodus multidentatus:
ZooBank:80CAB421-9CCB-4D5F-9CF9-F1440454FFF3.
- Poll, Max. 1952. "Quatrième série de Cichlidae nouveaux recueillis par la mission hydrobiologique belge au lac Tanganika (1946-1947)". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. 28 (49); p 1-20 (crc00044)
Conservation: Perissodus multidentatus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006). Very little is known of this species and it is impossible to know what the population numbers are in the lake.