Original description as Mbipia lutea:
ZooBank:04D4AFCB-BFE1-462C-AAC8-56688E949FD7.
- Seehausen, Ole & E. Lippitsch, N. Bouton and H. Zwennes. 1998. "Mbipi, the rock-dwelling cichlids of Lake Victoria: description of three new genera and fifteen new species". Ichthyological Explorations of Freshwaters. v. 9 (n. 2), pp. 129-228 (crc00316) (abstract)
Conservation: Mbipia lutea is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (VU) vulnerable (2010).