Male at Machili Island
A male of Oreochromis shiranus at Machili Island (Chizumulu), Lake Malawi [Malawi]. Photo by Ad Konings. (23-Oct-2005). determiner Ad Konings

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Tribe
Oreochromini

Genus
Oreochromis


Last updated on:
16-Feb-2013

Oreochromis shiranus Boulenger, 1897


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Original description as Oreochromis shiranus:

ZooBank:14990629-C683-47C2-B530-A8AB0864FECE.

  • Boulenger, George Albert. 1896. "Descriptions of new fishes from the Upper ShirĂ© River, British Central Africa, collected by Dr. Percy Rendall, and presented to the British Museum by Sir Harry H. Johnston, K. C. B.". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 915-920 (crc00714)

Sub-species:

Conservation: Oreochromis shiranus is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.