Original description as Tilapia eisentrauti:
ZooBank:BA1CE2B5-098B-4081-AEDE-D8AD6E5AC42C.
- Trewavas, Ethelwynn. 1962. "Fishes of the crater lakes of the northwestern Cameroons". Bonner Zoologische Beiträge. 13 (1/3); pp. 146-192 (crc00354)
Conservation: Konia eisentrauti is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (CR) critically endangered (2010).