World Species : Oreochromis aureus (Tilapia; Kurpertilapia; Jordan St. Peter's fish; Israeli tilapia; Golden tilapia; Blue tilapia)

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Oreochromis aureus (Tilapia; Kurpertilapia; Jordan St. Peter's fish; Israeli tilapia; Golden tilapia; Blue tilapia)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The blue tilapia or Israeli tilapia, Oreochromis aureus, is a species of fish in the Cichlidae family. Native to Northern and Western Africa, and the Middle East, through introductions it is now also established elsewhere, including parts of the United States, where it has been declared an invasive species and has caused significant environmental damage. It is known as blue kurper in South Africa.

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Invasive Species

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Attributes

Adult Length ^[1]	18 inches (46 cm)
Brood Dispersal ^[1]	On/In self
Litter Size ^[1]	1,800
Maximum Longevity ^[1]	6 years
Migration ^[2]	Potamodromous

Diet ^[2]	Omnivore, Planktivore, Detritivore

Female Maturity ^[1]	1 year

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Appalachian Piedmont	United States	Nearctic	Temperate Coastal Rivers
Colorado	Mexico, United States	Nearctic	Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins
East Texas Gulf	United States	Nearctic	Temperate Coastal Rivers
Florida Peninsula	United States	Nearctic	Tropical and Subtropical Coastal Rivers
Lower Rio Grande - Bravo	Mexico, United States	Nearctic	Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands
Puerto Rico - Virgin Islands	United Kingdom, United States	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coastal Rivers
Sabine - Galveston	United States	Nearctic	Temperate Coastal Rivers
US Southern Plains	United States	Nearctic	Temperate Upland Rivers
Vegas - Virgin	United States	Nearctic	Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
Ciénaga de Zapata National Park		1606900	Cuba
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary	IV	2387149	Florida, United States
Omo Strict Natural Reserve Forest Reserve		328086	Nigeria

Prey / Diet

Boiga dendrophila (Gold-ringed Cat Snake, Mangrove Snake)	^[3]
Bosmina longirostris	^[3]
Keratella cochlearis	^[3]

Predators

Anhinga anhinga (Anhinga)

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Consumers

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Parasitized by
Centrocestus formosanus	^[4]
Cichlidogyrus aegypticus	^[4]
Cichlidogyrus arthracanthus	^[4]
Cichlidogyrus cirratus	^[4]
Cichlidogyrus ergensi	^[4]
Cichlidogyrus halli	^[4]
Cichlidogyrus sclerosus	^[4]
Cichlidogyrus thurstonae	^[4]
Cichlidogyrus tiberianus	^[4]
Cichlidogyrus tilapiae	^[4]
Clinostomum complanatum	^[4]
Contracaecum multipapillatum	^[4]
Goezia sinamora	^[4]
Gyrodactylus cichlidarum	^[4]
Neobenedenia melleni	^[4]
Procamallanus pereirai	^[4]
Saccocoelioides cichlidorum	^[3]
Saccocoelioides sogandaresi	^[3]
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Sciadicleithrum bravohollisae	^[4]
Scutogyrus longicornis	^[4]
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Citations

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♦ ¹Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ ²Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 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.
♦ ⁴Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

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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