最初命名為 Haplochromis laparogramma:
ZooBank:A2586A00-25B2-415F-B524-F7705C4E41E0.
- Greenwood, Peter Humphry & J.M. Gee. 1969. "A revision of the Lake Victoria Haplochromis species (Pisces, Cichlidae), part VII". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology Series. 18:1:1-65 (crc01014)
保育: Haplochromis laparogramma 被評鑑為國際自然保育聯盟瀕危物種紅皮書名單中的 (LC) 無危 (2010). Haplochromis laparogramma belongs to a group of bentho-pelagic fishes which were exposed to the Nile perch predation. It could be extinct in the lake as no recent collections has been recorded.