Original description as Haplochromis straeleni:
ZooBank:813F9768-A82B-49AA-B794-EFF51D793ECE.
- Poll, Max. 1944. "Descriptions de poissons nouveaux recueillis dans la région d'Albertville (Congo belge) par le Dr. G. Pojer". Bulletin du Musée royal d'Histoire naturelle de Belgique. 1-12 (crc01464)
Synonyms (1):
- Haplochromis vanderhorsti Greenwood, 1954, with type locality at Malagarazi River, Lake Tanganyika. Determiner: Banyankimbona et al., 2013
Conservation: Astatoreochromis straeleni is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).