- The
Tilapiini (occasionally Tilapini) are a
tribe within the
family Cichlidae commonly known as
tilapiine cichlids.
Formerly this
tribe contained many...
- oreochromine, pelmatolapiine, and
tilapiine tribes (formerly all were "
Tilapiini"), with the
economically most
important species placed in the Coptodonini...
- Tropheini),
while another three have
species in the lake (Haplochromini,
Tilapiini and Tylochromini).
Others have
proposed splitting the
Tanganyika cichlids...
- only in the
tribe Pelmatolapiini, but
formerly they were
included in
Tilapiini.
There are
currently two
recognized species in this genus: Pelmatolapia...
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Limnochromini Oreochromini Pelmatochromini Pelmatolapiini Perissodini Ptychochromini Steatocranini Tilapiini Tropheini Tylochromini For genera, see below....
-
formerly considered to be part of the
tribe Tilapiini but more
recent workers have
found that the
Tilapiini sensu lato is paraphyletic.
Despite this change...
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Chordata class:
Actinopterygii Order:
Cichliformes Family:
Cichlidae Tribe:
Tilapiini Genus:
Tilapia A. Smith, 1840 Type
species Tilapia sparrmanii A. Smith...
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Heterotilapia buttikoferi, also
known as the
zebra tilapia, is a West
African species of cichlid. H.
buttikoferi is a
large cichlid,
capable of growing...
-
Tilapia has
become the
third most
important fish in
aquaculture after carp and salmon;
worldwide production exceeded 1.5 million
metric tons (1.5×10^6...
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sedis among the Pseudocrenilabrinae,
while the
latter is
placed in the
Tilapiini.
Natural Selection of the
Rhodopsin Gene
During the
Adaptive Radiation...
