Oreochromis macrochir (Boulenger, 1912)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Boulenger, George A. 1912. Descriptions of three new African cichlid fishes of the genus Tilapia, preserved in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Including Zoology, Botany and Geology, Being a Continuation of the 'Magazine of Botany and Zoology', and of Louden and Charlesworth's 'Magazine of Natural History', Series 8 10: 138-140.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Cichlidae
- genus
- Oreochromis
- species
- Oreochromis macrochir
Name
- Synonyms
- Chromis chapmanii Castelnau, 1861
- Chromys acora chapmannii Castelnau, 1861
- Chromys chapmani Castelnau, 1861
- Chromys sparmanni Castelnau, 1861
- Loruwiala macrochir (Boulenger, 1912)
- Oreochromis macrochir macrochir
- Oreochromis microchir (Boulenger, 1912)
- Sarotherodon macrochir (Boulenger, 1912)
- Sarotherodon macrochirus (Boulenger, 1912)
- Tilapia alleni Fowler, 1931
- Tilapia intermedia Gilchrist & Thompson, 1917
- Tilapia macrocheir Boulenger, 1912
- Tilapia macrochir Boulenger, 1912
- Tilapia sheshekensis Gilchrist & Thompson, 1917
- Homonyms
- Oreochromis macrochir (Boulenger, 1912)
- Common names
- Greenhead Tilapia in English
- Groenkop-kurper in Afrikaans
- Longfin tilapia in English
- Longfin tilapia in English
- Pale in language.
- Tlhapi in Tswana
- greenheaded bream in English
- greenheaded bream in English
- longfin tilapia in English
- longfin tilapia in English
- tummatilapia in Finnish
- Greenhead Tilapia in English
- Groenkop-kurper in Afrikaans
Bibliographic References
- Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2003: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
- Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
- Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
- US Geological Survey Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS) Program (2017), https://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/SpeciesList.aspx?group=&state=HI&Sortby=1