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Pelmatolapia mariae (Black mangrove cichlid; Niger cichlid; Spotted tilapia; Tilapia)

Synonyms: Tilapia dubia; Tilapia mariae; Tilapia mariae dubia; Tilapia mariae mariae; Tilapia meeki
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Wikipedia Abstract

The spotted tilapia (Pelmatolapia mariae), also known as the spotted mangrove cichlid or black mangrove cichlid, is a species of fish of the cichlid family. It is native to fresh and brackish water in West and Central Africa, but has been introduced to other regions where it is considered invasive.
View Wikipedia Record: Pelmatolapia mariae

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Pelmatolapia mariae

Attributes

Brood Guarder [1]  Yes

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Florida Peninsula United States Nearctic Tropical and Subtropical Coastal Rivers    

Predators

Hepsetus odoe (Pike characid)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cichlidogyrus testificatus[3]

Range Map

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1On the evolutionary pathway of parental care in mouth-brooding cichlid fish, Sigal Balshine-Earn and David J. D. Earn, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B (1998) 265, 2217-2222
♦ 2Elakhame, L.A. and Sikoki, F.D. (2003) Observations on the ecology of Hepsetus odoe, Bloch, 1794 (Pisces: Hepsetidae) in Epie Creek floodplain, Niger Delta, Nigeria. In: 16th Annual Conference of the Fisheries Society of Nigeria (FISON) , 4-9 November 2001 , Maiduguri, Nigeria.
♦ 3Gibson, 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