Species details : Tilapia ruweti (Poll & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1965)

Accepted scientific name:
Tilapia ruweti (Poll & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1965) (accepted name) 1 literature reference for Tilapia ruweti  (Poll & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1965)
Synonyms:
Pelmatochromis ruweti Poll & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1965 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Pelmatochromis ruweti Poll & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1965
Common names:
Common name Transliteration Language Country
Okavango-kurper - Afrikaans South Africa Click here to show the literature
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Okavango-tilapia - Afrikaans Namibia Click here to show the literature
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Okavango tilapia - English Namibia(Kwando River (Ref. 81703).) Click here to show the literature
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Okavango tilapia - English South Africa Click here to show the literature
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Okavango tilapia - English Zimbabwe Click here to show the literature
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Kakeya - Lwena Angola Click here to show the literature
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Liumbwe - Lwena Angola Click here to show the literature
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Mbowo - Lwena Angola Click here to show the literature
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魯氏非鯽 Lu shih fei ji Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature
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鲁氏非鲫 Lu shi fei ji Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature
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Classification:
Kingdom Animalia CoL
Phylum Chordata CoL
Class Actinopterygii FishBase
Order Perciformes FishBase
Family Cichlidae FishBase
Genus Tilapia FishBase
Distribution: Africa: swampy high plateaus of the Congo-Zambezi watershed (Ref. 5163), including the Lufira River (Ref. 82322). Also known from the Okavango delta (Ref. 7248). Reported from Zimbabwe (Ref. 13337).
Lifezones: Freshwater
Additional data: -
Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Group expert : Kullander, S., 19-May-2014
Source database: FishBase, Jan 2015   99%
Bibliographic citation: Froese R. & Pauly D. (eds) (2025). FishBase (version Jan 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2015 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Kunze T., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.
Online resource: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?ID=8930
CoL taxon LSID: urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:fd87d698-ac8e-11e3-805d-020044200006:col20150401