πNile tilapia
The Nile tilapia is a species of tilapia, a cichlid occurring naturally in parts of Africa and the Levant, though numerous introduced populations exist outside its natural range. This current wide range is caused by its high commercial value as a food fish, where it is marketed as mango fish, nilotica, or boulti, along with many other names, both local and foreign. Due to its value, the Nile tilapia is widely aquacultured across the world due to its hardiness and a mode of reproduction conducive to mass rearing, namely mouthbrooding, and various attempts have been made to increase production yields, including hybridization with other tilapias.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.
- Body mass
- 2.4 kg
- Body length
- 0.6 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 9 years
Everything we know about the Nile tilapia
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass2.4 kgrecord 4.32 kg Β· FishBaseAnAgeDetails βHide β
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
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Body length0.6 mmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails βHide β
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Maximum lifespan9 yearsrecord 9 years Β· FishBaseAnAgeDetails βHide β
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
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Trophic level2.03FishBaseDetails βHide β
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DietherbivoreaverageDetails βHide β
From trophic level 2.03 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2β2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humanspotential pestFishBaseDetails βHide β
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Volume l2.4 LaverageDetails βHide β
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Nile tilapia yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- βΊphylumChordata
- βΊorderPerciformes
- βΊfamilyCichlidae
- βΊgenusOreochromis
- βΊspeciesOreochromis niloticus
- superclassRay-finned fish Β· Actinopterygii
- orderCichliformes
- familyCichlidae
- tribeOreochromini
All 13 branches βFewer branches β
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish Β· Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- superorderCichlomorphae
- orderCichliformes
- familyCichlidae
- tribeOreochromini
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