Original description as Hemibates koningsi:
ZooBank:ABB3BA14-253B-4805-B8A5-FCA483C539EF.
- Schedel, Frederic D. B & Uldich K. Schliewen. 2017. "Hemibates koningsi spec. nov: a new deep-water cichlid (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika". Zootaxa. 4312(1):92-112. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4312.1.4 (crc08220) (abstract)
Conservation: Hemibates koningsi is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.