Original description as Enantiopus ochrogenys:
ZooBank:3E99B2B2-56F9-47DB-88CE-174EBA4A54FA.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1914. "Mission Stappers au Tanganyika-Moero. Diagnoses de poissons nouveaux. I. Acanthoptérygiens, Opisthomes, Cyprinodontes". Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines. 442-447 (crc00153)
Conservation: Xenotilapia ochrogenys is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).