Original description as Metriaclima gallireyae:
ZooBank:4B9CE7CA-9611-4600-A66E-5A29532BD1D8.
- Miller, Torin A & Adrianus F. Konings, Jay R. Stauffer. 2021. "Descriptions of two new shell-dwelling species of Metriaclima (Cichlidae) from Lake Malawi, Africa". Zootaxa. 5052(3):419–432. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5052.3.7 (crc11726) (abstract)
Conservation: Metriaclima gallireyae is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.