Original description as Haplochromis venustus:
ZooBank:F0EF5FE2-7624-4F21-8465-9228F8DC7282.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1908. "Diagnoses of new fishes discovered by Capt. E. L. Rhoades in Lake Nyassa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser8)238-243 (crc00068)
Synonyms (1):
- Haplochromis simulans Regan, 1922, with type locality at Lake Malawi. Determiner: Trewavas, 1935
Conservation: Nimbochromis venustus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2018). The main threat to this species is overfishing. A local decline in fishery catches is recorded for the southern parts of the lake and this also affects N. venustus. This species is mainly seen over sandy substrates inshore at places where deployment of beach seines could be prevented (Konings et al., 2019).