Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters, 1852) (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Chromis dumerilii Steindachner, 1864 (synonym)

Chromis mossambicus Peters, 1852 (synonym)

Chromis natalensis Weber, 1897 (synonym)

Chromis niloticus (non Linnaeus, 1758) (misapplied name)

Chromis niloticus var. var. mossambicus Peters, 1852 (synonym)

Chromis vorax Pfeffer, 1893 (synonym)

Cromis mossambicus Peters, 1852 (synonym)

Oreochromis mossambica (Peters, 1852) (synonym)

Oreochromis mozambica (Peters, 1852) (synonym)

Sarotherodon mossambica (Peters, 1852) (synonym)

Sarotherodon mossambicum (Peters, 1852) (synonym)

Sarotherodon mossambicus (Peters, 1852) (synonym)

Sarotherodon mossambicus subsp. natalensis (Weber, 1897) (synonym)

Sarothredon mossambica (Peters, 1852) (synonym)

Telapia mossambica (Peters, 1852) (synonym)

Tilapia arnoldi Gilchrist & Thompson, 1917 (synonym)

Tilapia dumerili (Steindachner, 1864) (synonym)

Tilapia dumerilii (Steindachner, 1864) (synonym)

Tilapia kafuensis (non Boulenger, 1912) (misapplied name)

Tilapia mosambica (Peters, 1852) (synonym)

Tilapia mossambica (Peters, 1852) (synonym)

Tilapia mossambica mossambica (Peters, 1852) (synonym)

Tilapia mossambicus (Peters, 1852) (synonym)

Tilapia mozambique (Peters, 1852) (synonym)

Tilapia natalensis (Weber, 1897) (synonym)

Tilapia vorax (Pfeffer, 1893) (synonym)

Tilapia zillii (non Gervais, 1848) (misapplied name)

Common names:

Mozambique mouth-breeder English

мозамбикская тиляпия Russian

南洋鯽仔 Mandarin Chinese

南洋鲫仔 Mandarin Chinese

南非非鯽 Mandarin Chinese

南非非鲫 Mandarin Chinese

在來吳郭魚 Mandarin Chinese

在来吴郭鱼 Mandarin Chinese

莫三鼻口孵魚 Mandarin Chinese

莫三鼻口孵鱼 Mandarin Chinese

莫桑比克口孵非鯽 Mandarin Chinese

莫桑比克口孵非鲫 Mandarin Chinese

莫桑比克帚齒非鯽 Mandarin Chinese

莫桑比克帚齿非鲫 Mandarin Chinese

莫桑比克非鯽 Mandarin Chinese

莫桑比克非鲫 Mandarin Chinese

非洲仔 Mandarin Chinese

Cá Rô Phi đen Vietnamese

Wu-Kuo yu Mandarin Chinese

African mouthbrooder English

African perch English

Bende Venda

Blou kurper Afrikaans

Bloukurper Afrikaans

Blou-kurper Afrikaans

Blue bream English

Blue tilapia English

Common tilapia English

Fai chau chak ue Cantonese

Gam san tsak Cantonese

Grootbekkurper Afrikaans

Hawaiian perch English

Hawaiian sunfish English

Jahir Toba, Batak

Japanese fish English

Java fish English

Java tilapia English

Jelebi meen Tamil

Jilebi Kannada

Kawasuzume Japanese

Khala Venda

Kolathile-meen Malayalam

Kurper bream English

Lapia Creole, French

Largemouth kurper English

Largemouth tilapia English

Malea Fijian

Maleya Fijian

Mandapa Mahl

Mocambique tilapia English

Mojarra English, Papiamento, Spanish

Mosambiekkurper Afrikaans

Mosambiek-tilapia Afrikaans

Mosambik-Maulbrüter German

Mossambiekkurper Afrikaans

Mossambik-Buntbarsch German

Mossambique-tilapia Swedish

Mouth-brooder English

Mozambikskaya tilapiya Russian

Mozambique cichlid English

Mozambique mouthbrooder English

Mozambique mouth-brooder English

Mozambique tilapia English

Mozambique-cichlide Danish

Mozambique-mundruger Danish

Mphende Nyanja

Mujair Bahasa Indonesia, Javanese, Malay

Natalbarsch German

Nkobue Sena

Para para Digo

Redfin tilapia English

Rooivinkurper Afrikaans

Thilapia Malayalam

Thipende Venda

Tilapia Creole, French, English, Fijian, French, Malay, Portuguese, Sinhalese, Spanish, Sranan, Tagalog, Tamil

Tilapia de Mozambique Spanish

Tilapia del Mozambique Spanish

Tilapia du Mozambique French

Tilapia mosambica Spanish

Tilapia mozámbica Spanish

Tilápia-de-Moçambique Portuguese

Tilapya Creole, French

Trey tilapia khmao Khmer

Tshena Venda

Tshikwea Venda

Valkoleukatilapia Finnish

Weißkehlbarsch German

Classification:

Animalia

LSID

Phylum Chordata

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Class Actinopterygii

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Order Perciformes

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Family Cichlidae

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Genus Oreochromis

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Distribution:

Zimbabwe; Zambia; Zambezi; Yili River; Yemen; Wallis and Futuna Is.; Viet Nam; Venezuela; Vanuatu; USA (contiguous states); US Virgin Islands; US Minor Outlying Is.; Uganda; Tuvalu; Turkey; Tunisia; Tsengwen River; Trinidad and Tobago; Tonga; Thailand; Tennessee; Tanzania, United Rep. of; Tana River; Taiwan; Tahiti; Swaziland; South China Sea; Sri Lanka; Suriname; South Africa; Solomon Islands; Singapore; Shire; Shiliao River; Shihtsao River; Seychelles; Senegal; Saudi Arabia; Samoa; Saint Lucia; Russian Federation; Puerto Rico; Réunion; Ruerhmen River; Philippines; Peru; Periyar; Peng-hu Island; Papua New Guinea; Panama; Palearctic; Pakistan; Oriental; Orange; Okavango; Oceania - Inland waters; North Marianas; Niue; Nile; Nicaragua; New Caledonia; Netherlands Antilles; Nepal; Neotropical; Nearctic; Nauru; Namibia; Myanmar; Mozambique; Micronesia,Fed.States of; Mexico; Maldives; Malta; Martinique; Mayotte; Mekong; Malaysia; Malawi; Madagascar; Limpopo; Lesotho; Lao People's Dem. Rep.; Lake Toba; Lake Buluan; Laguna de Bay; Kunene River; Kuban River; Krishna River; Korea, Republic of; Kiribati; Kenya; Kariba; Kaoping River; Jordan; Japan; Jamaica; Israel; Indonesia; India; Haiti; Hawaii (USA); Honduras; Hong Kong; Guyana; Guatemala; Guam; Grenada; Godavari; French Polynesia; France; Fiji Islands; Europe - Inland waters; Ethiopian; Erhjen River; El Salvador; Egypt; East Timor; Ecuador; Dominican Republic; Dominica; Danube; Cuba; Côte d'Ivoire; Costa Rica; Cook Islands; Congo, Dem. Rep. of the; Congo, Republic of; Colombia; China; Chiku River; Caroline Island; Cambodia; Brazil; Botswana; Bolivia; Bensbach River; Benin; Barbados; Bangladesh; Bahamas; Australian; Australia; Athi-Galana-Sabaki River Drainage System; Asia - Inland waters; Argentina; Antigua and Barbuda; America, South - Inland waters; American Samoa; Angola; America, North - Inland waters; Algeria; Africa-Inland Waters; Africa: Lower Zambezi, Lower Shiré and coastal plains from Zambezi delta to Algoa Bay. Occurs southwards to the Brak River in the eastern Cape and in the Transvaal in the Limpopo system (Ref. 6465). Widely introduced for aquaculture, but escaped and es

Additional data:

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Group expert : Kullander S. O., Data last modified by FishBase 15-Dec-1995

Online resource:

http://www.fishbase.org/...


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:40189c3e-52c2-102c-b3cd-957176fb88b9:ac2009


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