Original description as Pundamilia macrocephala:
ZooBank:0770C817-19B4-46ED-96C5-C3577859AB39.
- Seehausen, Ole & E. Lippitsch, N. Bouton, H. Zwennes. 1998. "Mbipi, the rock-dwelling cichlids of Lake Victoria: description of three new genera and fifteen new species". Ichthyological Explorations of Freshwaters. 9(2):129-228 (crc00316) (abstract)
Conservation: Pundamilia macrocephala is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (VU) vulnerable (2010).