Nominal species Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Seyoum, S. & I. Kornfield. 1992. "Taxonomic notes on the Oreochromis niloticus subspecies complex (Pisces: Cichlidae), with a description of a new subspecies". Canadian Journal of Zoology. 2161-2165 (crc00715)
Original description as Oreochromis niloticus tana:
ZooBank:A9FB8DE1-060D-4805-A672-05E9DF71CB84.
- Seyoum, S. & I. Kornfield. 1992. "Taxonomic notes on the Oreochromis niloticus subspecies complex (Pisces: Cichlidae), with a description of a new subspecies". Canadian Journal of Zoology. 2161-2165 (crc00715)
Conservation: Oreochromis niloticus tana is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species. Oreochromis niloticus tana, as currently understood, is rather narrowly endemic, but occurs in stable habitats and is apparently, in contrast to the Labeobarbus spp., not negatively affected by fishery pressure (deGraaf 2003).