Nominal species Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Thys van den Audenaerde, Dirk F.E.. 1968. "An annotated bibliography of Tilapia (Pisces, Cichlidae)". Documentation zoologique No. 14, Musée royal d'Afrique centrale, Tervuren. I-XI:1-406 (crc00198)
Original description as Tilapia cancellata:
ZooBank:39A80127-D22C-4385-8787-39D1FB4343DB.
- Nichols, John Treadwell. 1923. "A new wrasse and two new cichlids from northeast Africa". American Museum Novitates. (65):1-4. (crc01059)
Conservation: Oreochromis niloticus cancellatus is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.