Original description as Paratilapia retrodens:
ZooBank:4C6DCB89-893A-4CDA-A058-CD1FDD959EE7.
- Hilgendorf, F. M. 1888. "Fische aus dem Victoria-Nyanza (Ukerewe-See), gesammelt von dem verstorbenen Dr. G. A. Fischer". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde in Berlin. pp. 75-79 (crc00096)
Synonyms (1):
- Paratilapia polyodon Boulenger, 1909, with type locality at Sesse Island, Lake Victoria, Uganda. Determiner: van Oijen, 1991
Conservation: Haplochromis retrodens is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (VU) vulnerable (2010). This fish was largely widespread throughout the entire Lake Victoria before the Nile perch upsurge, but seems to be almost extinct today.