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Cichlidae
Description
Cichlidae
Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters, 1852) — Mozambique tilapia
STATUS AT MADANG. Reported from Madang by Parenti & Allen (1991: 319).
DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. Originally southeastern and southern Africa. Introduced worldwide into tropical freshwater habitats. Introduced, not native. Freshwater species, but tolerates higher salinity.
Notes
Published as part of Fricke, Ronald, Allen, Gerald R., Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Hamel, Mélanie A., Laboute, Pierre, Mana, Ralph, Hui, Tan Heok & Uyeno, Daisuke, 2014, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of Madang District, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 820 new records, pp. 1-247 in Zootaxa 3832 (1) on page 111, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3832.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/250559
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3832.1.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/250559 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/9662D602DA17FF8C3A3DFFDB9C12FFEE (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/BAB612A4-03DB-4958-BEB1-92DE278FBB90 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/6A5BAE7ADA79FFE23AAAFB0598E6FA5C (URL)
Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Cichlidae
- Taxon rank
- family
References
- Parenti, L. R. & Allen, G. R. (1991) Fishes of the Gogol River and other coastal habitats, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 1, 307 - 320.