Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Cichlidae > Oreochromis > Oreochromis macrochir

Oreochromis macrochir (Cichlid; Congo bream; Greenhead bream; Greenhead tilapia; Green-head tilapia; Green-headed bream; Longfin tilapia; Mango fish)

Synonyms:
Language: Afrikaans; Bemba; Ewe; Fang; Finnish; French; Ga; Lwena; Mandarin Chinese; Other

Wikipedia Abstract

Oreochromis macrochir (longfin tilapia, greenhead tilapia, or greenhead bream) is a species of cichlid native to the Zambezi Basin, Lake Mweru, and Lake Bangweulu. It has been used extensively for stocking ponds and dams in other parts of southern Africa, but is little-used elsewhere.In Lake Mweru, it is economically the most important fish. The fish was introduced into Lake Alaotra in Madagascar in 1954, and proliferated quickly. By 1957, it provided 46% of the catch, perhaps because it was moving into an empty ecological niche as a phytophagous species.
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Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Oreochromis macrochir

Attributes

Brood Dispersal [1]  On/In self

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    

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Moremi Game Reserve IV 1214686 Botswana  

Predators

Hydrocynus vittatus (Tigerfish)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Acanthogyrus tilapiae[2]
Paradilepis delachauxi[3]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Marshall, B. E. (1979), Observations on the breeding biology of Sarotherodon macrochir (Boulenger) in Lake Mcllwaine, Rhodesia. Journal of Fish Biology, 14: 419–424
♦ 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
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