Original description as Haplochromis piceatus:
ZooBank:9ECA6760-0E52-4B95-80DF-46F4EB18672B.
- Greenwood, Peter Humphry & J.M. Gee. 1969. "A revision of the Lake Victoria Haplochromis species (Pisces, Cichlidae), part VII". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology Series. 18:1:1-65 (crc01014)
Conservation: Haplochromis piceatus is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.