Blue Tilapia

Oreochromis aureus (Steindachner 1864)

Oreochromis aureus (Blue Tilapia) is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family Cichlidae.

EOL has data for 8 attributes, including:

parasitized by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002445
- Comment: Auto-added during harvest #37. A human needs to edit this.
- Attribution: Global Biotic Interactions
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Chilodonella cyprini
body size
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_VT0100005
- Definition: The size of a multicellular organism
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16 cm
cultivated in
- URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/cultivated_in
- Definition: This organism is cultivated (populations grown with the aid of human effort or technology) in the following region(s)
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Costa Rica
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/3624060
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geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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United States
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/6252001
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harvested in
- URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/harvested_in
- Definition: This organism is caught or collected, and put to human use, in the following region(s)
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Israel
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/294640
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has ectoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002633
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Caligus epidemicus Hewitt 1971

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of blue tilapia. View this species on GBIF