Oreochromis aureus (Steindachner, 1864)

Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), Zootaxa 5402 (1), pp. 1-99 : 83

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14960200

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scientific name

Oreochromis aureus (Steindachner, 1864)
status

 

267. Oreochromis aureus (Steindachner, 1864) View in CoL

Common name. Blue tilapia

Taxonomy. Original description: Chromis aureus Steindachner, 1864: 229 , pl. 8, fig. 5 [locality unknown; no types known].

Revisions. Trewavas (1965: 265) as Tilapia aurea; Trewavas (1982: 12).

Illustrations. Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020: 255, fig. 468).

Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Tigris.―Distribution in Ecoregions: 441-Lower Tigris & Euphrates, 442-Upper Tigris & Euphrates.

Reasons of introduction. Aquaculture/research.

Status in Iran. [Exotic].—Tilapi-e Abi.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022). Iran material: IMNRF-UT.

Conservation. IUCN: NE.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Petromyzonti

Order

Perciformes

Family

Cichlidae

Genus

Oreochromis

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