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Coptodon zillii
Description
** Coptodon zillii (Gervais, 1848).
Redbelly Tilapia. To 40 cm (15.7 in) SL (Froese and Pauly 2019; note that we were unable to verify this record). Long Beach Harbor area (Dill and Cordone 1997; M.L., unpubl. data). Primarily a freshwater species, T. zillii are periodically taken in Long Beach Harbor at least as far south as the Belmont Pier. They probably have been washed down rivers or creeks entering the harbor area. Previously as Tilapia zillii (Gervais, 1848).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 171, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Cichlidae
- Genus
- Coptodon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gervais
- Species
- zillii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Coptodon zillii (Gervais, 1848) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (Eds). (2019) FishBase. World Wide Web Electronic Publication. www. fishbase. org, version (12 / 2019).
- Dill, W. A. & Cordone, A. J. (1997) History and status of introduced fishes in California, 1871 - 1996. California Department of Fish Game, Fish Bulletin, 178.