Blackchin Tilapia

Sarotherodon melanotheron Rüppell 1852

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Sarotherodon melanotheron (Blackchin Tilapia) is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family Cichlidae. They are associated with freshwater habitat.

URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000873
Definition: A biome that applies to the freshwater realm.

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EOL has data for 11 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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Paeonodes lagunaris Banning 1974
body size
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_VT0100005
- Definition: The size of a multicellular organism
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17.5 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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Senegal
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/2245662
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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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habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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estuarine
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000020
- Definition: Expressions of the estuarine biome occur at wide lower courses of a rivers where they flow into a sea. Estuaries experience tidal flows and their water is a changing mixture of fresh and salt.
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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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Senegal
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/2245662
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has ectoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002633
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Paeonodes lagunaris Banning 1974
water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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2 m

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

National Fisheries Research and Development Institute, Philippines. Year: 2014. cc-by-nc-sa-3.0