Original description as Enantiopus boulengeri:
ZooBank:51E3E00F-F5E6-442E-8239-2E881A640CA0.
- Poll, Max. 1942. "Cichlidae nouveaux du lac Tanganika appartenant aux collections du Musée du Congo". Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines (crc00114)
Synonyms (2):
- Parectodus lestradei Poll, 1942, with type locality at Nyanza, Lake Tanganyika. Determiner: Greenwood, 1978
- Xenotilapia materfamilias Poll , 1943, with type locality at Albertville [Kalemie], Zaire [Democratic Republic of Congo], Lake Tanganyika.. Determiner: Poll, 1956
Conservation: Xenotilapia boulengeri is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).