Original description as Lamprologus attenuatus:
ZooBank:2C327A96-A572-4EFB-995F-E9A9B8FFB540.
- Steindachner, Franz. 1909. "Über eine neue Tilapia- und Lamprologus-Art aus dem Tanganyikasee und über Brachyplatystoma (Taenionema) platynema Blgr. aus der Umgebung von Pará". Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. 443-447 (crc00047)
Synonyms (1):
- Lamprologus pleurostigma Boulenger, 1914, with type locality at Tulo and Kilewa Bay, Lake Tanganyika. Determiner: Poll, 1956
Conservation: Lepidiolamprologus attenuatus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (NT) near threatened (2006).