Original description as Haplochromis (Ptyochromis) fischeri:
ZooBank:105720FE-B785-4751-8EC3-1CB387A37E6C.
- Seegers, Lothar. 2008. "The Fishes Collected by G. A. Fischer in East Africa in 1883 and 1885/86". Zoosystematics and Evolution. v. 84(n. 2), pp. 149-195. DOI: 10.1002/zoos.200800003 (crc01698) (abstract)
Conservation: Haplochromis fischeri is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (VU) vulnerable (2010).