Original description as Tilapia macrochir:
ZooBank:C66D62E0-9031-4E9D-AAFC-628BA90507F5.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1912. "Descriptions of three new African cichlid fishes of the genus Tilapia, preserved in the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Series 8)10(55):138-140 (crc01654)
Synonyms (1):
- Chromys chapmanii Castelnau, 1861, with type locality at Lake N'gami, Botswana, South Africa. Determiner: Trewavas & Teugels, 1991
- Chromys sparmanni Castelnau, 1861, with type locality at Lake N'gami, Botswana, South Africa. Determiner: Trewavas & Teugels, 1991
- Tilapia intermedia Gilchrist & Thompson, 1917, with type locality at Sawmills, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Determiner: Trewavas & Teugels, 1991
- Tilapia sheshekensis Gilchrist & Thompson, 1917, with type locality at Shesheke, Zimbabwe [s. Rhodesia], South Africa. Determiner: Trewavas & Teugels, 1991
- Tilapia alleni Fowler, 1931, with type locality at Botletle river at Maun, Bechuanaland (Botswana). Determiner: Trewavas & Teugels, 1991
Conservation: Oreochromis macrochir is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (VU) vulnerable (2007).