Original description as Pelmatochromis polylepis:
ZooBank:67B24BAC-98AA-4648-9354-B2FD0DAB4B51.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1900. "Matériaux pour la faune du Congo. Poissons nouveaux du Congo. Sixième Partie. Mormyres, Characins, Cyprins, Silures, Acanthoptérygiens, Dipneustes". Annales du Musée du Congo Belge. 1;(6):129-164 (crc01392)
Conservation: Tylochromis polylepis is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).