Cichlidae

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, Zootaxa 3832 (1), pp. 1-247 : 111

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3832.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BAB612A4-03DB-4958-BEB1-92DE278FBB90

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6129640

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6A5BAE7A-DA79-FFE2-3AAA-FB0598E6FA5C

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Cichlidae
status

 

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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.

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