Original description as Petrochromis fasciolatus:
ZooBank:9812B7D7-38DA-427E-9569-DE5686106AE4.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1914. "Mission Stappers au Tanganyika-Moero. Diagnoses de poissons nouveaux. I. Acanthoptérygiens, Opisthomes, Cyprinodontes". Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines. pp. 442-447 (crc00153)
Conservation: Petrochromis fasciolatus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).