Original reference as Alticorpus sp. 'deep bicusp':
- Snoeks, Jos & R. Walapa. 2004. "The genus Alticorpus Stauffer & McKaye, 1988". The Cichlid Diversity of Lake Malawi, Identification, Distribution and Taxonomy. 27-56 (crc01892)
Conservation: Alticorpus sp. 'deep bicusp' is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.