Lepidiolamprologus meeli is a cichlid species in the subfamily Pseudocrenilabrinae.

It is endemic to Lake Tanganyika, where it is found in the waters of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia.

[3] This cichlid is named in honor of botanist Ludo van Meel (1908–1990), a member of the Belgian Hydrobiological Mission to Lake Tanganyika that took place between 1946 and 1947, during which the type specimen was collected.

[4] As hybridization seems to have played a major role in the radiation of this group, the exact relationships of the present species are obscure; one specimens was found to belong to an mtDNA lineage quite similar to L./N.

Perhaps the former observation is based on a misidentified specimen; in any case it appears that a somewhat closer relationship between the present species and L. kendalli than of either to any other lamprologine is more likely than not.