Original description as Oreochromis hunteri:
ZooBank:6FA13825-30E4-45F6-BA19-98BDEABCE5A9.
- Günther, Albert C. L. G. 1889. "On some fishes from Kilima-Njaro District". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1889:70-72 (crc00706)
Conservation: Oreochromis hunteri is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (CR) critically endangered (2006).