Original description as Lamprologus furcifer:
ZooBank:B25E66C8-3F7B-46E6-96EB-75905BB1E6CD.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1898. "Report on the fishes recently obtained by Mr. J. E. S. Moore in Lake Tanganyika". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 3:494-497 (crc00006)
Conservation: Neolamprologus furcifer is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).