Décrit initialement sous Metriaclima nkhunguensis:
ZooBank:274F4DA4-707C-48B7-BF32-310F5E6BBE96.
- Ciccotto, Patrick J. & A. Konings, J.R. Stauffer. 2011. "Descriptions of five new species in the genus Metriaclima (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Malawi, Africa". Zootaxa. 2011(2738):1–25 (crc02837) (résumé)
Conservation: Metriaclima nkhunguense n\'est pas évalué par l\'Union Internationale pour la Conservation de la Nature dans la Liste rouge des espèces menacées. The range of M. nkhunguense is very restricted to a group of shallow reefs with a total length of about 10 km the fact that they live between the rocks poses no direct threat to overfishing. Within their distribution M. nkhunguense is probably the most common mbuna in the rocky/intermediate habitat.