Original description as Haplochromis argyrosoma:
ZooBank:C8F2C89F-478E-45E5-BBA2-A787BCE711ED.
- Regan, Charles Tate. 1922. "The Cichlid Fishes of Lake Nyassa". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1921(pt 4)36:675-727 (crc00066)
Conservation: Otopharynx argyrosoma is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).