Original description as Tylochromis labrodon:
ZooBank:A079244D-FF7B-45E1-88B9-E66831858376.
- Regan, Charles Tate. 1920. "A revision of the African cichlid fishes of the genus Tylochromis". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser9)5:26:163-169 (crc01032)
Conservation: Tylochromis labrodon is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2009).