Original description as Telmatochromis bifrenatus:
ZooBank:7FC4D262-9096-4209-936F-512E80D686FB.
- Myers, George Sprague. 1938. "Report on the fishes collected by H. C. Raven in Lake Tanganyika in 1920". Proceeding of the United States National Museum. 84(2998):1-15 (crc00232)
Conservation: Telmatochromis bifrenatus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).