Original description as Tilapia mvogoi:
ZooBank:128D6F8E-C314-4157-9D51-8AD54865CDF0.
- Thys van den Audenaerde, Dirk F.E.. 1965. "Description d'une nouvelle espèce de Tilapia de la rivière Nyong (Cameroun) (Pisces, Cichlidae)". Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines. 392-399 (crc00696)
Conservation: Sarotherodon mvogoi is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2009).