Original description as Haplochromis mollis:
ZooBank:8BF2EB25-A2C8-40E3-9D55-3CC487F7835E.
- Trewavas, Ethelwynn. 1935. "A Synopsis of the Cichlid Fishes of Lake Nyasa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 10:65-118 (crc00118)
Conservation: Mylochromis mollis is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).