Original description as Lethrinops polli:
ZooBank:3C3000E6-268E-4E69-BCF7-96179D08C6C7.
- Burgess, Warren & H. R. Axelrod. 1973. "New Cichlids from Lake Malawi". Tropical Fish Hobbyist Magazine. 22 (2); pp. 14, 87-98 (crc00162)
Conservation: Placidochromis polli is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2018).