Original description as Chromichthys elongatus:
ZooBank:C399257B-BEC8-43F4-8E95-E9601A988AA3.
- Duméril, Auguste H. A. 1861. "Poissons de la côte occidentale d'Afrique". Archives du Museum nationale d'Histoire naturelle (Paris). pp. 241-268 (crc00690)
Synonyms (1):
- Hemichromis auritus Gill, 1862, with type locality at Gabon River, West Africa. Determiner: Daget et al., 1991
Conservation: Hemichromis elongatus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2010).