Original description as Tilapia lata var. camerunensis:
ZooBank:AD7EA774-DD7E-4122-BF50-F6F726228C1F.
- Lönnberg, Einar. 1903. "On a collection of fishes from the Cameroon containing new species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 7) pp. 37-46 (crc00695)
Conservation: Coptodon camerunensis is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (VU) vulnerable (2010).