Original description as Tilapia karongae:
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- Trewavas, Ethelwynn. 1941. "Nyasa fishes of the genus Tilapia and a new species from Portuguese East Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 11:294-306 (crc01144)
Synonyms (1):
- Tilapia saka Lowe, 1953, with type locality at Lake Nyassa. Determiner: Turner, 1996
Conservation: Oreochromis karongae is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (EN) endangered (2004).