Original description as Lamprologus stappersi:
ZooBank:0BDF64E6-3FA2-4DB8-94F8-B864E5B5DA27.
- Pellegrin, Jacques. 1927. "Description de Cichlidés et d'un Mugilidé nouveaux du Congo belge". Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines. 15(1)52-57 (crc00046)
Synonyms (1):
- Lamprologus meleagris Büscher, 1991, with type locality at Near Bwassa, 7°25'S, 30°10'E, about 65 kilometers south of Moba, Zaire [Democratic Republic of Congo], Lake Tanganyika. Determiner: Konings, 1998
Conservation: exLamprologus stappersi is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.