Uznawany jako synonim exLamprologus callipterus (Boulenger, 1906)
- Trewavas, Ethelwynn. 1946. "The types of African cichlid fishes described by Borodin in 1931 and 1936, and of two species described by Boulenger in 1901". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. v. 116(n. 2), pp. 240-246. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1946.tb00121.x (crc01695)
Oryginalny opis jako Lamprologus modestus nyassae:
ZooBank:A8BEB1EE-3D90-4A3F-A6E9-6CC01A1BD78C.
- Borodin, Nikolai A.. 1936. "On a collection of freshwater fishes from lakes Nyasa, Tanganyika and Viktoria in Central Afrika". Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik (Jena). v. 68(n. 1), pp. 1-34 (crc01163)