Original description as Oreochromis macrochir mweruensis:
ZooBank:F77E5512-7B5F-4E18-87C6-08938C1128BB.
- Trewavas, Ethelwynn. 1983. "Tilapiine fishes of the genera Sarotherodon, Oreochromis and Danakilia". Tilapiine fishes of the genera Sarotherodon, Oreochromis and Danakilia. 1-583 (crc00692)
Conservation: Oreochromis mweruensis is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).