Original description as Orthochromis rubrolabialis:
ZooBank:8C408C03-B68B-4023-8287-42B0B65419D1.
- de Vos, Luc & L. Seegers. 1998. "Seven new Orthochromis species (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the Malagarasi, Luiche and Rugufu basins (Lake Tanganyika drainage), with notes on their reproductive biology". Ichthyological Explorations of Freshwaters. 9(4):371-420 (crc01067) (abstract)
Conservation: Orthochromis rubrolabialis is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (EN) endangered (2006).