Original description as Tilapia adolphifrederici:
ZooBank:AEA90E1B-C3C8-42D1-9739-21F264F1EB6B.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1914. "Unterordnung: Acanthopterygii. Fam. Cichlidae". Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1907-1908, Zoologie. Band 5, pp. 253-259 (crc00952)
Synonyms (1):
- Haplochromis murakoze Coenen, Snoeks & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1984, with type locality at Lake Kivu, Rwanda. Determiner: Snoeks, 1994
Conservation: Haplochromis adolphifrederici is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.