Original description as Haplochromis angustifrons:
ZooBank:B95A4DCF-99FB-4C6F-800E-5CFF0BD68391.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1914. "Unterordnung: Acanthopterygii. Fam. Cichlidae". Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1907-1908, Zoologie. Band 5:253-259 (crc00952)
Conservation: Haplochromis angustifrons is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).