Original description as Haplochromis chlorochrous:
ZooBank:25E046B8-D4B9-4A9D-8A8B-569B72344489.
- Greenwood, Peter Humphry & J.M. Gee. 1969. "A revision of the Lake Victoria Haplochromis species (Pisces, Cichlidae), part VII". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology Series. 18:1:1-65 (crc01014)
Conservation: Haplochromis chlorochrous is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (DD) data deficient (2010).