Original description:
- Trewavas, Ethelwynn. 1983. "Nouvel examen des genres et sous-genres du complexe Pseudotropheus-Melanochromis du lac Malawi". Revue française d'Aquariologie et Herpetologie. 10(4):97-106 (crc00184) (abstract)
Type species: Pseudotropheus tropheops Regan, 1922 (original designation).
Described species included (9):
valid: 9- Pseudotropheus tropheops Regan, 1922 (valid)
- Pseudotropheus macrophthalmus Ahl, 1927 (valid)
- Pseudotropheus tropheops gracilior Trewavas, 1935 (valid)
- Pseudotropheus microstoma Trewavas, 1935 (valid)
- Pseudotropheus modestus Johnson, 1974 (valid)
- Pseudotropheus tropheops romandi Colombe, 1979 (valid)
- Tropheops kumwera Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016 (valid)
- Tropheops biriwira Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016 (valid)
- Tropheops kamtambo Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016 (valid)
Potentially undescribed species (47):
- sp. 'lilac' (undescribed)
- sp. 'chinyamwezi' (undescribed)
- sp. 'orange chest' (undescribed)
- sp. 'maleri yellow' (undescribed)
- sp. 'gold otter' (undescribed)
- sp. 'gracilior nankumba' (undescribed)
- sp. 'elongatus chizumulu' (undescribed)
- sp. 'red cheek' (undescribed)
- sp. 'black dorsal' (undescribed)
- sp. 'yellow gular' (undescribed)
- sp. 'aurora' (undescribed)
- sp. 'band' (undescribed)
- sp. 'black hara' (undescribed)
- sp. 'boadzulu' (undescribed)
- sp. 'chilumba type' (undescribed)
- sp. 'chilumba' (undescribed)
- sp. 'chinyankwazi' (undescribed)
- sp. 'chitimba' (undescribed)
- sp. 'dark' (undescribed)
- sp. 'deep' (undescribed)
- sp. 'elongatus mbako' (undescribed)
- sp. 'elongatus metangula' (undescribed)
- sp. 'elongatus namalenje' (undescribed)
- sp. 'elongatus reef east' (undescribed)
- sp. 'goldbreast' (undescribed)
- sp. 'gome yellow' (undescribed)
- sp. 'higga' (undescribed)
- sp. 'lumessi blue' (undescribed)
- sp. 'macrophthalmus chitimba blue' (undescribed)
- sp. 'macrophthalmus chitimba' (undescribed)
- sp. 'macrophthalmus gallireya' (undescribed)
- sp. 'maleri blue' (undescribed)
- sp. 'mauve yellow' (undescribed)
- sp. 'mauve' (undescribed)
- sp. 'mbenji blue' (undescribed)
- sp. 'mbenji yellow' (undescribed)
- sp. 'membe' (undescribed)
- sp. 'mumbo' (undescribed)
- sp. 'olive' (undescribed)
- sp. 'orange head' (undescribed)
- sp. 'red cheek north' (undescribed)
- sp. 'red fin' (undescribed)
- sp. 'rust' (undescribed)
- sp. 'taiwan' (undescribed)
- sp. 'weed' (undescribed)
- sp. 'yellow chin' (undescribed)
- sp. 'masimbwe' (undescribed)