Original description as Tylochromis microdon:
ZooBank:F7682968-F82D-466C-8EC5-A3559BC8B072.
- 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 microdon is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (EN) endangered (2009).