Original description as Tilapia lepidura:
ZooBank:69B3CCCB-94F1-4AC5-ABC9-A9E54181027A.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1899. "A revision of the African and Syrian fishes of the family Cichlidae. Part II". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 98-143(1-47): (crc00051)
Conservation: Oreochromis lepidurus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (EN) endangered (2010).