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Oreochromis niloticus

Creators

  • 1. Escuela de Biología, Museo de Zoología / Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical (CIBET) and Centro de
  • 2. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, 480 Wilson Rd # 13, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA joel. t. betts @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6018 - 8995
  • 3. Unidad de Gestión Técnica de Proyectos - Oficina de Relaciones Internacionales y de Cooperación Externa (ORICE / UGETEP),
  • 4. Universidad Americana (UAM, Costado Noroeste Camino de Oriente, Managua, Nicaragua edgar. ecologica @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8148 - 3195
  • 5. Department of Environment and Development, Zamorano Biodiversity Center. Zamorano University of Tegucigalpa, P. O. Box 93, Honduras evandenberghe @ zamorano. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7566 - 0415
  • 6. Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH). Chicago, Illinois, United States of America delias @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4215 - 0384 cmcmahan @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2113 - 8554

Description

* Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus 1758). Nile Tilapia; Tilapia, Tilapia del Nilo, Carpa

Vouchers: Not available. Distribution: Northern and eastern Africa; introduced throughout the world; (Nicaragua) Co, Pr, GM, KP, Es, BF, IM, To, Sa, SJ, RF, LN (Atlantic), Ne, ER, PN and Ni (Pacific); 0–955 masl; Sec, Pot. Occurrence and conservation status: Exo. Literature: McKaye et al. (1995: 405; introduction and ecological aspects), McCrary et al. (1998: 46, 2007: 107; ecology, including a discussion of potential harmful effects, and information on distribution), Gros & Miguel-Frithz (2010: 269, as Orechromis sp. —misidentification; brief description, including illustrations, and information on distribution and ecology, plus indigenous science and ethnoichthyology), Al-Faisal & Mutlak (2014: 45; morphological data and species identification), Angulo (2021: 50; listed, including information on distribution) and Angulo & San Gil-León (2022: e4029; identification key and information on distribution).

Notes

Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/038C8788E876FF80FF792D38FE7936F9

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/10208788 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB5FFF0E843FFB5FFEE2C1FFFA1347C (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/9ECCB3F7-5481-47C2-8A5A-E9A3F38C31BA (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/038C8788E876FF80FF792D38FE7936F9 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/219296371 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/279636/taxon/038C8788E876FF80FF792D38FE7936F9.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Cichlidae
Genus
Oreochromis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Perciformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
niloticus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Angulo, Betts, González-Alemán, Castañeda, Berghe, Elías, Mcmahan & Matamoros, 2023

References

  • McKaye, K. R., Ryan, J. D., Stauffer Jr., J. R., Perez, L. J. L., Vega, G. I. & van den Berghe, E. P. (1995) African tilapia in Lake Nicaragua. BioScience, 45, 406 - 411. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1312721
  • McCrary, J. K., R-yan, J. D., Stauffer, J. R., Lopez Perez, L., Vega, G. L., van den Berghe, E. P. & McKaye, K. R. (1998) Tilapia africana en el Lago de Nicaragua: ecosistema en transicion. 1740280769 Encuentro, 46, 46 - 53. https: // doi. org / 10.5377 / encuentro. v 0 i 46.3757
  • McCrary, J. K., Murphy, B. R., Stauffer, J. R. & Hendrix, S. S. (2007) Tilapia (Teleostei: Cichlidae) status in Nicaraguan natural waters. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 78, 107 - 114. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10641 - 006 - 9080 - x
  • Gros, P. M. & Miguel-Frithz, N. (2010) Conocimientos del pueblo Mayangna sobre la convivencia del hombre y la naturaleza: peces y tortugas: Peces y Tortugas. 1740280773 Vol. 1. UNESCO, Paris, 284 pp.
  • Al-Faisal, A. J. & Mutlak, F. M. (2014) First record of the Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus 1758), from the Shatt al-Arab River, southern Iraq. Mesopotamian Journal of Marine Science, 29, 45 - 50. https: // doi. org / 10.58629 / mjms. v 29 i 1.139
  • Angulo, A. (2021) New records and range extensions to the Costa Rican freshwater fish fauna, with an updated checklist. Zootaxa, 5083 (1), 1 - 72, https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5083.1.1
  • Angulo, A. & San Gil-Leon, J. (2022) Claves para la identificacion de los peces de las aguas continentales e insulares de Costa Rica. Parte II: Cichliformes, Cichlidae (Mojarras, Guapotes, Tilapias y afines). 1740280795 UNED Research Journal, 14 (2), e 4029. https: // doi. org / 10.22458 / urj. v 14 i 2.4029

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