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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
taxa		  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 (from synonym) 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] [view taxon]

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Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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. (2013). Oreochromis niloticus niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=279200 on 2013-12-07
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