Original description as Paratilapia vittata:
ZooBank:36046DAE-F6B5-4CF2-B27D-402944DAC68F.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1901. "Diagnoses of new fishes discovered by Mr. J. E. S. Moore in lakes Tanganyika and Kivu". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 7) pp. 1-6 (crc00034)
Synonyms (1):
- Paratilapia vittata nigroides Pellegrin , 1935, with type locality at Lake Kivu, Zaire. Determiner: van Oijen et al., 1991
Conservation: Haplochromis vittatus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).