Original description as Haplochromis glaucus:
ZooBank:E5948349-E3F9-49A1-81CD-1C7D332E2F00.
- Vranken, Nathan & Maarten van Steenberge, Annelies Heylen, Eva Decru, Jos Snoeks. 2022. "From a pair to a dozen: the piscivorous species of Haplochromis (Cichlidae) from the Lake Edward system". European Journal of Taxonomy. (815):1-94. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.815.1749 (crc11876) (abstract)
Conservation: Haplochromis glaucus is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.