Riferimento originale in Tropheops sp. 'masimbwe':
- Konings, Ad. 2022. "The Importance of Record Keeping: The Case of Tropheops". Cichlid News Magazine. 31(3):32-36 (crc11954) (riassunto)
Conservazione: Tropheops sp. 'masimbwe' è valutata dalle organizzazioni internazionali di salvaguardia delle specie a rischio come (LC) basso rischio (2018). Tropheops sp. 'masimbwe' is rarely collected for the ornamental fish trade, but sometimes is caught in beach seines of subsistence fishermen. Subsistence fishing using of seines is a potential threat for small cichlid species (Konings & Kazembe, 2018).