Original description as Lamprologus olivaceous:
ZooBank:521A0735-CAF7-4872-B2DA-CA9670299E5D.
- Brichard, Pierre. 1989. "Pierre Brichard's book of cichlids and all the other fishes of Lake Tanganyika". TFH Publications. 1-544 (crc00025)
Conservation: Neolamprologus olivaceous is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (DD) data deficient (2006).