Original description as Tilapia auromarginata:
ZooBank:8B603DBA-BE3B-433B-8E12-5657CF8C3997.
- Boulenger, George Albert. 1908. "Diagnoses of new fishes discovered by Capt. E. L. Rhoades in Lake Nyassa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser8)238-243 (crc00068)
Conservation: Otopharynx auromarginatus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2018).