Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Cichlidae > Oreochromis > Oreochromis esculentus

Oreochromis esculentus (Singida tilapia; Graham's tilapia; Carp)

Synonyms: Sarotherodon esculentus; Tilapia esculenta
Language: Finnish; Lango; Logone; Luo; Mandarin Chinese; Other; Swahili

Wikipedia Abstract

Oreochromis esculentus, the Singida tilapia or Graham's tilapia, is a critically endangered species of cichlid endemic to the Lake Victoria basin, including some of its satellite lakes such as Kyoga. It has also been introduced to the Pangani basin. This species reaches a length of 50 centimetres (20 in) SL.
View Wikipedia Record: Oreochromis esculentus

Attributes

Maximum Longevity [1]  10 years

Predators

Bagrus docmak (Sudan catfish)[2]
Protopterus aethiopicus (marbled lungfish)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Acanthogyrus tilapiae[2]
Quadriacanthus tilapiae[3]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 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.
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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