Original description as Cyphotilapia gibberosa:
ZooBank:7AD94405-8394-46B3-AB3F-B8FDF010DBDF.
- Takahashi, Tetsumi & K. Nakaya. 2003. "New species of Cyphotilapia (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika, Africa". Copeia. 2003(4):824-834. DOI: 10.1643/IA03-148.1 (crc00003) (abstract)
Conservation: Cyphotilapia gibberosa is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.