Considered a synonym of Astatotilapia gigliolii (Pfeffer, 1896)
- Turner, George & Benjamin P. Ngatunga, Martin J. Genner. 2021. "Astatotilapia species (Teleostei, Cichlidae) from Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania, excluding the basin of Lake Victoria". EcoEvoRix Preprints. 1-107. DOI: 10.32942/osf.io/eu6rx (crc11206) (abstract)
Original description as Astatotilapia tweddlei:
ZooBank:60C294FB-60AE-4BD3-A62A-3468C412636D.
- Jackson, Peter B.N. 1985. "Astatotilapia tweddlei, a new species of fluviatile haplochromine cichlid fish from Lakes Chilwa and Chiuta, Malawi, with zoogeographical notes". J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Special Publications. (38):1-10 (crc01648) (abstract)