Original description as Tilapia leucosticta:
ZooBank:ED1EC12D-BC4D-4964-9745-64D9703DD812.
- 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)
Synonyms (1):
- Tilapia trewavasae Poll, 1939, with type locality at Rutshuru River at May-Ya-Moto, Zaire [Democratic Republic of Congo]. Determiner: Trewavas & Teugels, 1991
Conservation: Oreochromis leucostictus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).