Erstbeschreibung: Greenwood, Peter Humphry. 1954. „On two species of cichlid fishes from the Malagarazi River (Tanganyika), with notes on the pharyngeal apophysis in species of the Haplochromis group“. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 12) 7 (no. 78); pp. 401-414
Typusart: Haplochromis malagaraziensis David, 1937