Original description as Lamprologus brevis:
ZooBank:6377DD5E-4435-4051-9168-85B2A4401591.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1899. "Matériaux pour la faune du Congo. Poissons nouveaux du Congo. Cinquième Partie. Cyprins, Silures, Cyprinodontes, Acanthoptérygiens". Annales du Musée du Congo Belge. Zoologique 1:122 (crc00130)
Synonyms (1):
- Lamprologus taeniurus Boulenger, 1914, with type locality at Tulo, Lake Tanganyika. Determiner: Poll, 1946
Conservation: exLamprologus brevis is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006). exLamprologus brevis is a common species that has no value as a food fish and is too small to be accidentally captured in fisherman's nets.