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Tilapia zillii (Gervais, 1848)

AphiaID

282980 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:282980)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Coptodon zillii (Gervais, 1848)

Rank

Species

Parent

Tilapia Smith, 1840

Original name

Acerina zillei Gervais, 1848

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Subspecies Tilapia zillii guineensis (Günther, 1862) accepted as Coptodon guineensis (Günther, 1862)

Environment

~~marine~~, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Acerina zillei Gervais, 1848) Gervais, F. L. P. (1848). Sur les animaux vertébrés de l'Algérie, envisagés sous le double rapport de la géographie zoologique et de la domestication. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris (Zoologie) (Sér. 3). v. 10: 202-208., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.39473 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Tilapia zillii (Gervais, 1848). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=282980 on 2026-03-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2017-10-23 04:16:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description (of Acerina zillei Gervais, 1848) Gervais, F. L. P. (1848). Sur les animaux vertébrés de l'Algérie, envisagés sous le double rapport de la géographie zoologique et de la domestication. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris (Zoologie) (Sér. 3). v. 10: 202-208., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.39473 [details]

Other

context source (HKRMS) Hong Kong marine fish database. AFCD. , available online at https://www.hk-fish.net/en/fish/introduction/ [details]

context source (RAS) Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [details]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]