Original description as Haplochromis saxicola:
ZooBank:D13B0587-D2C6-466C-9E4F-BA4C02A7293D.
- Greenwood, Peter Humphry. 1960. "A Revision of the Lake Victoria Haplochromis Species (Pisces, Cichlidae), part IV". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology Series. 6:4:227-281 (crc01037)
Conservation: Haplochromis saxicola is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (VU) vulnerable (2006).