Original description as Haplochromis katavi:
ZooBank:983714D6-09A7-4F80-A0CA-BF7F9150647D.
- Seegers, Lothar. 1996. "The Fishes of the Lake Rukwa Drainage". Annales du Musée royal de l'Afrique Centrale (Série Zoology). (no. 278); pp. 1-407 (crc01592)
Conservation: Haplochromis katavi is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (VU) vulnerable (2006).