Description: English: Protomelas kirkii, female, caught in beach seine at Monkey Bay, Lake Malawi. Date: 30 April 1992. Source: Own work. Author: G.F.Turner.
Description: Deutsch: Protomelas kirkii. Date: 11 August 1915. Source: https://archive.org/stream/catalogueoffresh03brit#page/60/mode/thumb Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) , Volume 3, 1915. Author: Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937.