Original description as Haplochromis tanaos:
ZooBank:33C109E7-F7EB-448A-A27E-60445FABDD96.
- van Oijen, Martien J.P & F. Witte. 1996. "Taxonomical and ecological description of a species complex of zooplanktivorous and insectivorous cichlids from Lake Victoria". Zool. Verh. (Leiden). pp. 1-56 (crc00361)
Conservation: Haplochromis tanaos is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2010).