Original description as Pseudotropheus minutus:
ZooBank:EA197102-2B8E-43EC-AC51-9B4CB4280A2E.
- Fryer, Geoffrey. 1956. "New species of cichlid fishes from Lake Nyasa". Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines. v. 53 (1-2); pp. 81-91 (crc00117)
Conservation: Chindongo minutus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).