Original description as Orthochromis mazimeroensis:
ZooBank:610DF75A-7660-41E8-9109-BAC8E95A8B30.
- de Vos, Luc & L. Seegers. 1998. "Seven new Orthochromis species (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the Malagarasi, Luiche and Rugufu basins (Lake Tanganyika drainage), with notes on their reproductive biology". Ichthyological Explorations of Freshwaters. 9(4):371-420 (crc01067) (abstract)
Conservation: Orthochromis mazimeroensis is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (EN) endangered (2006).