Original description as Orthochromis kimpala:
ZooBank:2ED3215C-60C6-46D3-8978-942013969512.
- Schedel, Frederic D. B & E.J.W.M.N. Vreven, B.K. Manda, E. Abwe, A. Manda, U.K. Schliewen. 2018. "Description of five new rheophilic Orthochromis species (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the Upper Congo drainage in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo". Zootaxa. 4461(3),. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4464.3.1 (crc08570) (abstract)
Conservation: Orthochromis kimpala is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.