- Tilapia (genus)
Taxobox | name = "Tilapia"
image_caption=Zebra tilapia , "Tilapia buttikoferi"
image_width = 240px
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Actinopterygii
ordo =Perciformes
familia =Cichlidae
subfamilia =Pseudocrenilabrinae
tribus =Tilapiini
genus = "Tilapia"
genus_authority = Smith,1840
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =About 40, but see text."Tilapia" is a large
genus ofcichlid fishes endemic to Africa. The common name "tilapia " is also used for tilapiinecichlid s of the genera "Oreochromis " and "Sarotherodon ", which were long contained in "Tilapia".There is strong indication that even the remaining "Tilapia" do not constitute a
monophyletic group, but rather an assemblage basal among tilapiines and possibly evenparaphyletic with non-tilapiine cichlids. For example, "Tilapia bemini " seems to be closer to "Astatoreochromis ", and a group containing "Tilapia rendalli ", "Tilapia ruweti " and "Tilapia zillii " is probably even more distant, based onmtDNA sequence analysis. Research is hampered by the fact that hybridization runs rampant in these fishes, and that judging from mtDNA alonetaxa may appear to be closer to others than they actually are.(Nagl "et al." 2001)pecies
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Tilapia bakossiorum " Stiassny, Schliewen & Dominey, 1992
*"Tilapia baloni " Trewavas & Stewart, 1975
*"Tilapia bemini " Thys van den Audenaerde, 1972
*"Tilapia bilineata " Pellegrin, 1900
*"Tilapia brevimanus " Boulenger, 1911
*"Tilapia busumana " Günther, 1903
*Zebra tilapia , "Tilapia buttikoferi" Hubrecht, 1881
*"Tilapia bythobates " Stiassny, Schliewen & Dominey, 1992
*"Tilapia cabrae " Boulenger, 1899
*"Tilapia cameronensis " Holly, 1927
*"Tilapia camerunensis " Lönnberg, 1903
*"Tilapia cessiana " Thys van den Audenaerde, 1968
*"Tilapia coffea " Thys van den Audenaerde, 1970
*"Tilapia congica " Poll & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1960
*"Tilapia dageti " Thys van den Audenaerde, 1971
*"Tilapia deckerti " Thys van den Audenaerde, 1967
*"Tilapia discolor " Günther, 1903
*"Tilapia flava " Stiassny, Schliewen & Dominey, 1992
*"Tilapia guinasana " Trewavas, 1936
*"Tilapia guineensis " Günther, 1862
*"Tilapia gutturosa " Stiassny, Schliewen & Dominey, 1992
*"Tilapia imbriferna " Stiassny, Schliewen & Dominey, 1992
*"Tilapia ismailiaensis " Mekkawy, 1995
*"Tilapia jallae " Boulenger, 1896
*"Tilapia joka " Thys van den Audenaerde, 1969
*"Tilapia kottae " Lönnberg, 1904
*"Tilapia louka " Thys van den Audenaerde, 1969
*"Tilapia margaritacea " Boulenger, 1916
*Spotted tilapia , "Tilapia mariae" Boulenger, 1899
*"Tilapia nyongana " Thys van den Audenaerde, 1971
*"Tilapia rendalli " Boulenger, 1897
*"Tilapia rheophila " Daget, 1962
*"Tilapia ruweti " Poll & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1965
*"Tilapia snyderae " Stiassny, Schliewen & Dominey, 1992
*"Tilapia sparrmanii " Smith, 1840
*"Tilapia spongotroktis " Stiassny, Schliewen & Dominey, 1992
*"Tilapia tholloni " Sauvage, 1884)
*"Tilapia thysi " Stiassny, Schliewen & Dominey, 1992
*"Tilapia walteri " Thys van den Audenaerde, 1968
*"Tilapia zillii " Gervais, 1848References
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* (2001): Classification and Phylogenetic Relationships of African Tilapiine Fishes Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA Sequences. "Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution" 20(3): 361–374. doi|10.1006/mpev.2001.0979
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