Original description as Tilapia amphimelas:
ZooBank:DC8DC44A-094D-43A4-BC75-49B3DA554A4D.
- Hilgendorf, F.M.. 1905. "Fische von Deutsch und Englisch Ost-Africa". Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik (Jena). 22:4:405-420 (crc00996)
Synonyms (1):
- Tilapia manyarae Hilgendorf, 1905, with type locality at Lake Manyara, a salt lake southwest of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Determiner: Trewavas & Teugels, 1991
Conservation: Oreochromis amphimelas is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (NT) near threatened (2006).