Original description as Bathybates vittatus:
ZooBank:95180F00-B48B-440C-B20F-7A9070F9FE49.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1914. "Mission Stappers au Tanganyika-Moero. Diagnoses de poissons nouveaux. I. Acanthoptérygiens, Opisthomes, Cyprinodontes". Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines. pp. 442-447 (crc00153)
Conservation: Bathybates vittatus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).