Beschrieben sind:
Xenotilapia boulengeri Poll, 1942
Xenotilapia caudafasciata Poll, 1951
Xenotilapia flavipinnis Poll, 1985
Xenotilapia leptura Boulenger, 1901
Xenotilapia longispinis Poll, 1951
Xenotilapia longispinis burtoni Poll, 1951
Xenotilapia melanogenys (Boulenger, 1898)
Xenotilapia nigrolabiata Poll, 1951
Xenotilapia nasus De Vos, Risch & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1996
Xenotilapia ochrogenys Boulenger, 1914
Xenotilapia ornatipinnis Boulenger, 1901
Xenotilapia ochrogenys bathyphilus Poll, 1956
Xenotilapia papilio Büscher, 1990
Xenotilapia singularis Boulenger, 1914
Xenotilapia sima Boulenger, 1899
Xenotilapia spilopterus Poll & Stewart, 1975
Evtl. noch Unbeschrieben:
sp. 'fluorescent green'
sp. 'papilio sunflower'
sp. 'papilio katete'
sp. 'red princess'