Original description as Neolamprologus walteri:
ZooBank:F6B74B82-13F8-4462-A4E1-4D5728DDC0F0.
- Verburg, Piet & Bills, Roger. 2007. "Two new sympatric species of Neolamprologus (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa". Zootaxa. 2007(1612):25-44 (crc01476) (abstract)
Conservation: Neolamprologus walteri is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.