Considerato un sinonimo junior di Oreochromis tanganicae (Günther, 1894)
- Trewavas, Ethelwynn. 1946. "The types of African cichlid fishes described by Borodin in 1931 and 1936, and of two species described by Boulenger in 1901". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 116(2):240-246. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1946.tb00121.x (crc01695)
Descrizione originale come Haplochromis fasciatus:
ZooBank:6EF85192-E91F-4FD9-A545-6C1EC96411E1.
- Borodin, Nikolai A.. 1931. "Some new cichlid fishes from lakes Victoria and Tanganyika, Central Africa". Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club. 12:49-54 (crc00965)