Original description as Tilapia lidole:
ZooBank:174A2AFC-76D1-47A2-8E99-1A8FA760B8C0.
- 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)
Conservation: Oreochromis lidole is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (EN) endangered (2004).