Original description as Trematocranus pachychilus:
ZooBank:50FF20F1-74E0-4C11-90AC-37FAB2121378.
- Dierickx, Katrien & M. Hanssens, B. Rusuwa, J. Snoeks. 2018. "Trematocranus pachychilus, a new endemic cichlid from Lake Malawi (Teleostei, Cichlidae)". Zookeys. (743):153-166. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.743.22814 (crc08458) (abstract)
Conservation: Trematocranus pachychilus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (DD) data deficient (2018).