Illustration of type
Illustration of type of Oreochromis lepidurus as it appears in figure 116 on page 181 of Boulenger, George Albert. 1915. Catalogue of the fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) Volume III. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London. i-xii + pp. 1-526. Photo by Pekka Vasankari. Sent by Juan Miguel Artigas Azas.

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Tribe
Oreochromini

Genus
Oreochromis


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Oreochromis lepidurus (Boulenger, 1899)


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Original description as Tilapia lepidura:

ZooBank:69B3CCCB-94F1-4AC5-ABC9-A9E54181027A.

  • Boulenger, George Albert. 1899. "A revision of the African and Syrian fishes of the family Cichlidae. Part II". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 98-143(1-47): (crc00051)

Conservation: Oreochromis lepidurus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (EN) endangered (2010).