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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Actinopterygii (class)  »  Perciformes (order)  »  Cichlidae (family)

CAAB Code: 37 371016 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
:

Oreochromis aureus   (Steindachner, 1864)

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes
Family: 37 371 Cichlidae (Cichlids) - show full list
Standard Name: [a cichlid]
Organism Type: a cichlid
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Freshwater
Parent Codes: 37 371903     Oreochromis spp.
Taxon Notes:Introduced from Africa via aquarium trade. Recorded from northern QLD but probably based on a hybrid of O. mossambicus with genes from one of three additional Oreochromis species, including O. aureus (see Mather & Arthington 1991, Arthington et al 1999) [Source - AFD, 2016].

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:16b24a0e-7f44-40ee-a763-046afdb86e04
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA 5526
View at FoA
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:279196
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-08-09
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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