Considerato un sinonimo junior di Oreochromis niloticus eduardianus (Boulenger, 1912)
- Trewavas, Ethelwynn. 1983. "Tilapiine fishes of the genera Sarotherodon, Oreochromis and Danakilia". Tilapiine fishes of the genera Sarotherodon, Oreochromis and Danakilia. 1-583 (crc00692)
Descrizione originale come Tilapia inducta:
ZooBank:60CC37E9-21F6-4DC8-B29A-378BB938B805.
- Trewavas, Ethelwynn. 1933. "Scientific results of the Cambridge Expedition to the East African Lakes, 1930-1. --11. The cichlid fishes". Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Zoology). 38:259:309-341. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1933.tb00062.x (crc01010)