Original description as Xenotilapia nigrolabiata:
ZooBank:E2784838-AAAF-4C46-9746-140AF8FCEB46.
- Poll, Max. 1951. "Troisième série de Cichlidae nouveaux recueillis par la mission hydrobiologique belge au lac Tanganika (1946-1947) - Suite 1". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. v. 27(n. 30), pp. 1-11 (crc00297)
Conservation: Xenotilapia nigrolabiata is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).