Original description as Haplochromis gowersii:
ZooBank:4722B349-E81D-4A9F-8688-8FF9B5ECD475.
- Trewavas, Ethelwynn. 1928. "Descriptions of five new cichlid fishes of the genus Haplochromis from Lake Victoria". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 10; pp. 93-95 (crc00362)
Conservation: Haplochromis gowersii is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (DD) data deficient (2010).