Original description as Haplochromis aelocephalus:
ZooBank:80E086A2-FC4B-437A-BA77-9E5451A133B7.
- Greenwood, Peter Humphry. 1959. "A Revision of the Lake Victoria Haplochromis Species (Pisces, Cichlidae), part III". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology Series. v. 5(n. 7) pp. 179-218 (crc00302) (abstract)
Conservation: Haplochromis aelocephalus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (CR) critically endangered (2010).