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Alcolapia grahami (Lake Magadi tilapia)

Synonyms: Alcolapia alcalicus grahami; Oreochromis alcalicus grahami; Oreochromis grahami; Sarotherodon alcalicus grahami; Tilapia grahami
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Wikipedia Abstract

Alcolapia grahami, the Lake Magadi tilapia, is a vulnerable species of fish in the Cichlidae family. It is endemic to the hypersaline, warm and highly alkaline Lake Magadi in Kenya, but has also been introduced to Lake Nakuru in Kenya and Lake Natron in Tanzania.
View Wikipedia Record: Alcolapia grahami

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Alcolapia grahami

Attributes

Brood Dispersal [1]  On/In self

Predators

Corythornis cristatus cristatus (Malachite Kingfisher)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cichlidogyrus sclerosus[3]
Cichlidogyrus tilapiae[3]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Active browsing by mouthbrooding femalesof Tropheus duboisi and Tropheus moorii (Cichlidae) to feed the young and/or themselves, Yasunobu Yanagisawa and Tetsu Sato, Environmental Biology of Fishes 27: 43-50, 1990
♦ 2del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0