Original description as Paratilapia victoriana:
ZooBank:0B695D55-01F9-4B45-99DB-228CAB14CB8C.
- Pellegrin, Jacques. 1904. "Diagnoses préliminaires de Poissons nouveaux du Lac Victoria, recueillis par M. Alluaud". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. pp. 184-186 (crc00359)
Conservation: Haplochromis victorianus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (CR) critically endangered (2010).