Original description as Orthochromis mporokoso:
ZooBank:056F502D-DBCB-44C8-909F-97CBBF6559AC.
- 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. v. 4461(n. 3), (crc08570) (abstract)
Conservation: Orthochromis mporokoso is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.