Original description as Tilapia bemini:
ZooBank:B0345794-86F9-4586-8BD4-1C7FC45E9C37.
- Thys van den Audenaerde, Dirk F.E.. 1972. "Description of small new Tilapia (Pisces, Cichlidae) from West-Cameroon". Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines. pp. 93-98 (crc00977)
Conservation: Coptodon bemini is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (CR) critically endangered (2010).