Original description:
- Regan, Charles Tate. 1920. "The Classification of the Fishes of the Family Cichlidae.-I. The Tanganyika Genera". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. [Series 9]5:25:33-53 (crc00028)
Type species: Tilapia simotes Boulenger, 1911 (original designation).
Described species included (6):
valid: 6- Tilapia nigricans Boulenger, 1906 (valid)
- Tilapia simotes Boulenger, 1911 (valid)
- Neochromis rufocaudalis Seehausen & Bouton, 1998 (valid)
- Neochromis gigas Seehausen & Bouton, 1998 (valid)
- Neochromis greenwoodi Seehausen & Bouton, 1998 (valid)
- Neochromis omnicaeruleus Seehausen & Bouton, 1998 (valid)
Potentially undescribed species (2):
- sp. 'madonna' (undescribed)
- sp. 'unicuspid scraper' (undescribed)