Original description as Pseudotropheus flavus:
ZooBank:60BC186E-4016-4C83-B623-FBC8917062B3.
- Stauffer, Jay Richard Jr.. 1988. "Three new rock-dwelling cichlids (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Malawi, Africa". Copeia. 1988 (3); pp.663-668 (crc00171)
Conservation: Chindongo flavus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (VU) vulnerable (2006).