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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOreochromis niloticus niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 279200

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChordata (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVertebrata (Subphylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGnathostomata (Superclass) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorPisces (Superclass) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorActinopterygii (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPerciformes (Order) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorCichlidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOreochromis (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOreochromis niloticus (Species)
Status accepted
Rank Subspecies
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChromis guentheri Steindachner, 1864
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChromis nilotica (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOreochromis nilotica (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOreochromis nilotics (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPerca nilotica Linnaeus, 1758
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSarotherodon niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTilapia calciati Gianferrari, 1924
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTilapia nilotica (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTilapia nilotica nilotica (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTilapia nilotious (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling)
Sources 
original description (of Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPerca nilotica Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

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Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Host of  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorErgasilus latus Fryer, 1960 [via synonym] (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLamproglena monodi Capart, 1944 [via synonym] (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLernaeocera barnimii Hartmann, 1870 [via synonym] (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLernaea barnimiana (Hartmann, 1865) [via synonym] (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLernaea hardingi Fryer, 1956 [via synonym] (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOpistholernaea laterobrachialis (Fryer, 1959) [via synonym] (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Link Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank (8 nucleotides; 8 proteins) 
Images Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editor[show unreviewed]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:279200
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  created  Bailly, Nicolas
2008-02-18 09:17:38Z  changed  Decock, Wim
2012-05-07 12:11:08Z  checked  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2014). Oreochromis niloticus niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2014) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=279200 on 2014-04-18
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