Original description as Spathodus erythrodon:
ZooBank:EAFC83CC-D72E-4D86-B345-3BC18758FF42.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1900. "Matériaux pour la faune du Congo. Poissons nouveaux du Congo. Sixième Partie. Mormyres, Characins, Cyprins, Silures, Acanthoptérygiens, Dipneustes". Annales du Musée du Congo Belge. 1;(6):129-164 (crc01392)
Conservation: Spathodus erythrodon is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006). It is still rather common along Tanganyika shores and commonly imported for the aquarium trade.