Cichlidae

Fricke, Ronald, Allen, Gerald R., Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Hamel, Mélanie A., Laboute, Pierre, Mana, Ralph, Hui, Tan Heok & Uyeno, Daisuke, 2014, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of Madang District, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 820 new records, Zootaxa 3832 (1), pp. 1-247 : 111

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3832.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BAB612A4-03DB-4958-BEB1-92DE278FBB90
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6129640
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scientific name	Cichlidae
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Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters, 1852) — Mozambique tilapia

STATUS AT MADANG. Reported from Madang by Parenti & Allen (1991: 319).

DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. Originally southeastern and southern Africa. Introduced worldwide into tropical freshwater habitats. Introduced, not native. Freshwater species, but tolerates higher salinity.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Actinopterygii
Order	Perciformes
Family	Cichlidae

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Actinopterygii
Order	Perciformes
Family	Cichlidae
Genus	Oreochromis

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