Original description as Acerina zillii:
ZooBank:DC6E870E-F282-4DA7-BA6D-4289114AD359.
- Gervais, F. L. P.. 1848. "Sur les animaux vertébrés de l'Algérie, envisagés sous le double rapport de la géographie zoologique et de la domestication". Annales des Sciences Naturelles. v. 3(n. 10), pp. 202-208 (crc00981)
Synonyms (5):
- Haligenes tristrami Günther, 1860, with type locality at Salt Lake and ditches of Tuggurt, Algeria. Determiner: Sauvage, 1877
- Tilapia melanopleura Duméril , 1861, with type locality at Senegal. Determiner: Thys van den Audenaerde, 1968
- Chromis andreae Günther, 1864, with type locality at Lake Galilée, Israel. Determiner: Goren, 1974
- Chromis menzalensis Mitchell , 1895, with type locality at Lake Menzaleh, Egypt. Determiner: Stiassny, 1991
- Tilapia sparrmani multiradiata Holly , 1928, with type locality at River, near Fort Archambault, Chad. Determiner: Trewavas et al., 1991
- Tilapia shariensis Fowler , 1949, with type locality at Bahr Sara, tributary of Shari [Chari] River, near Fort Archambault [Sahr], Chad. Determiner: Stiassny, 1991
Conservation: Coptodon zillii is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.