CICHLIDAE

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, Zootaxa 4509 (1), pp. 1-215 : 112

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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.

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.