Original description as Steatocranus masalamasoso:
ZooBank:5932D7D9-BF3D-48AE-A04D-2ED191A9A601.
- Ibala Zamba, Armel & Juliane D. Weiss, Victor Mamonekene, Ulrich K. Schliewen, Emmanuel Vreven. 2022. "Steatocranus masalamasoso, a new species of lionhead cichlid from the LĂ©fini River basin, Congo basin, Africa (Teleostei: Cichlidae)". Ichthyological Explorations of Freshwaters. IEF-1130:1-11. DOI: 10.23788/IEF-1130 (crc11870) (abstract)
Conservation: Steatocranus masalamasoso is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.