Original description as Paratilapia pfefferi:
ZooBank:07A6419B-3D97-4566-9E78-BECBFD6E30D0.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1898. "Report on the fishes recently obtained by Mr. J. E. S. Moore in Lake Tanganyika". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 3:494-497 (crc00006)
Conservation: Jabarichromis pfefferi is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).