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Tilapia (Ctenochromis) sparsidens (Hilgendorf, 1905)


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Considered a synonym of Astatotilapia bloyeti (Sauvage, 1883)

  • Regan, Charles Tate. 1922. "The Classification of the Fishes of the Family Cichlidae.--II. On African and Syrian Genera Not Restricted to the Great Lakes". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 9(10), 252 (crc00107)

Original description as Tilapia (Ctenochromis) sparsidens:

ZooBank:528A6084-7A6B-4971-810E-1DC90D6616CC.

  • Hilgendorf, F.M.. 1905. "Fische von Deutsch und Englisch Ost-Africa". Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik (Jena). 22:4:405-420 (crc00996)