Original description as Lufubuchromis relictus:
ZooBank:186F29FB-59D0-4859-A453-8A818EBDBD5D.
- Schedel, Frederic D. B & V.M.S. Kupriyanov, C. Katongo, U.K. Schliewen. 2020. "Palaeoplex gen. nov. and Lufubuchromis gen. non, two new monotypic cichlid genera (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from northern Zambia". Zootaxa. 4718(2):191–229. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4718.2.3 (crc02709) (abstract)
Conservation: Lufubuchromis relictus is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.