Original description as Lethrinops furcifer:
ZooBank:9BD3B4C0-6224-4A5C-B2BC-7A713848D0FA.
- Trewavas, Ethelwynn. 1931. "A revision of the cichlid fishes of the genus Lethrinops Regan". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 10:7:133-152 (crc00999)
Conservation: Lethrinops furcifer is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).