Original description as Haplochromis granti:
ZooBank:ED3306AB-9126-42E7-BAE7-C9BFD6E5CC15.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1906. "Descriptions of new fishes discovered by Mr E. Degen in Lake Victoria". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (ser. 7) 17; pp. 433-452 (crc00190)
Conservation: Haplochromis granti is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (CR) critically endangered (2010).