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Cichlidae
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CICHLIDAE
Coptodon zillii (Gervais 1848)
Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Bayoumi, 1969).
Gulf of Aqaba: ¯
Red Sea main: ¯
General distribution: Jordan River system and rivers of North and West Africa; introduced elsewhere.
Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters 1852)
Gulf of Suez: ¯
Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Golani & Lerner 2007).
Red Sea main basin: ¯
Remark. Originally distributed in freshwater and transitional water of southeastern Africa; introduced into marine water of the Red Sea.
General distribution: Rivers of southeastern Africa; introduced elsewhere.
Notes
Published as part of Golani, Daniel & Fricke, Ronald, 2018, Checklist of the Red Sea Fishes with delineation of the Gulf of Suez, Gulf of Aqaba, endemism and Lessepsian migrants, pp. 1-215 in Zootaxa 4509 (1) on page 112, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566
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- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
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- Cichlidae
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References
- Bayoumi, A. R. (1969) Note on the occurrence of Tilapia zillii in Suez Bay. Journal of Marine Biology, 4 (3), 255 - 256. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 00393903
- Golani, D. & Lerner, A. (2007) A long-term study of the sandy shore ichthyofauna in the northern Red Sea (Gulf of Aqaba) with reference to adjacent mariculture activity. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 14 (Supplement), 255 - 264.