Tilapia

Tilapia sparrmanii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Labroidei
Main Page Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Chordata Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclassis: Osteichthyes Classis: Actinopterygii Subclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Superordo: Acanthopterygii Ordo: Perciformes Subordo: Labroidei

Familia: Cichlidae
Subfamilia: Pseudocrenilabrinae
Tribus: Tilapiini
Genus: Tilapia
Species (45): T. bakossiorum - T. baloni - T. bemini - T. bilineata - T. brevimanus - T. busumana - T. buttikoferi - T. bythobates - T. cabrae - T. cameronensis - T. camerunensis - T. cessiana - T. coffea - T. congica - T. dageti - T. deckerti - T. discolor - T. ejagham - T. flava - T. fusiforme - T. guinasana - T. guineensis - T. gutturosa - T. imbriferna - T. ismailiaensis - T. jallae - T. joka - T. konkourensis - T. kottae - T. louka - T. margaritacea - T. mariae - T. nigrans - T. nyongana - T. pra - T. rendalli - T. rheophila - T. ruweti - T. snyderae - T. sparrmanii - T. spongotroktis - T. tholloni - T. thysi - T. walteri - T. zillii

Name

• Tilapia Smith, 1840: unnumbered page facing Plate V
  • Gender: feminine
  • Type species: Tilapia sparrmanii Smith, 1840
    • Type by original designation here (last paragraph) [also monotypic]

References

Primary references

• Smith, A. 1840: Pisces. In: Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa; consisting chiefly of figures and descriptions of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa in 1834-36. 4: 77 unnumbered pages, accompanying Plates I-XXXI. BHL

Additional references

• Dunz, A.R.; Schliewen, U.K. 2012: Description of a rheophilic Tilapia species Smith, 1840 (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Guinea with comments on Tilapia rheophila Daget, 1962. Zootaxa, 3314: 17-30. Preview reference page 
• Klett, V.; Meyer, A 2002: What, if anything, is a Tilapia?—Mitochondrial ND2 phylogeny of tilapiines and the evolution of parental care systems in the African cichlid fishes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 19 (6): 865-883. Abstract PDF
• Thys van den Audenaerde, D.F.E. 1969: An annotated bibliography of Tilapia (Pisces, Cichlidae). Documentation Zoologique / Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale No. 14: i-xl + 1-406. (Date of this reference is 1969 not 1968 per the authoritative Catalog of Fishes)

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus
• Tilapia species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & D. Pauly (eds) (2012). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, version 02/2012.
• Tilapia and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes,
  Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed) (2012). Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• ITIS

Vernacular names

Català: Tilapia
English: Tilapia (genus)
Kapampangan: Tilapia
Lietuvių: Paprastosios tilapijos
‪Norsk (bokmål)‬: Tilapia

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