Original description as Tilapia walteri:
ZooBank:BEF08EA9-140C-4BC8-8DE5-3C8116205F53.
- Thys van den Audenaerde, Dirk F.E.. 1968. "Description de Tilapia walteri sp. n. (Pisces, Cichlidae), de la rivière Cavally (Afrique Occidentale).". Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines. pp. 374-379 (crc00990)
Conservation: Coptodon walteri is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (NT) near threatened (2010).