Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Cichlidae > Coptodon > Coptodon rendalli

Coptodon rendalli (redbrested bream; Red-breasted tilapia; Red-breasted bream; Redbreasted bream; Redbreast tilapia; Northern redbreast bream; Congo tilapia; Congo perch; Blue tilapia)

Synonyms:
Language: Afrikaans; Bemba; Chokwe; Fang; Finnish; French; German; Lwena; Mandarin Chinese; Nyanja; Other; Portuguese; Sena; Spanish; Swahili; Venda

Wikipedia Abstract

The redbreast tilapia, Coptodon rendalli, is a species of fish in the Cichlidae family. It is found widely in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its natural habitats are freshwater lakes and freshwater marshes. It is known as redbreast kurper in South Africa.
View Wikipedia Record: Coptodon rendalli

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.031 lbs (1.375 kg)
Maximum Longevity [2]  7 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Hawaiian Islands United States Oceania Oceanic Islands    
Okavango Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Floodplain Rivers and Wetland Complexes    
Puerto Rico - Virgin Islands United Kingdom, United States Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Coastal Rivers    

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kruger National Park II 4718115 Mpumalanga, South Africa
Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve   Mpumalanga, South Africa  
Mlawula Nature Reserve IV 46444 Swaziland  
Moremi Game Reserve IV 1214686 Botswana  

Prey / Diet

Predators

Hydrocynus vittatus (Tigerfish)[3]
Nycteris grandis (large slit-faced bat)[4]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Frimpong, 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.
♦ 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.
♦ 4Nycteris grandis, M. B. C. Hickey and J. M. Dunlop, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 632, pp. 1–4 (2000)
♦ 5Gibson, 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
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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