Original description as Haplochromis teegelaari:
ZooBank:E5812F7A-797E-4993-BC41-728954FF83ED.
- Greenwood, Peter Humphry & C. D. N. Barel. 1978. "A revision of the Lake Victoria Haplochromis species (Pisces, Cichlidae), Part VIII". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology Series. vol. 6 (4): pp227-281 (crc01160)
Conservation: Haplochromis teegelaari is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (CR) critically endangered (2010).