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Tilapia
Zebra tilapia, Tilapia buttikoferi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes Family: Cichlidae Subfamily: Pseudocrenilabrinae Tribe: Tilapiini Genus: Tilapia Smith, 1840
Species
About 40, but see text.

Tilapia is a large genus of cichlid fishes endemic to Africa. The common name "tilapia" is also used for tilapiine cichlids of the genera Oreochromis and Sarotherodon, which were long contained in Tilapia.

There is strong indication that even the remaining Tilapia do not constitute a monophyletic group, but rather an assemblage basal among tilapiines and possibly even paraphyletic with non-tilapiine cichlids. For example, Tilapia bemini seems to be closer to Astatoreochromis, and a group containing Tilapia rendalli, Tilapia ruweti and Tilapia zillii is probably even more distant, based on mtDNA sequence analysis. Research is hampered by the fact that hybridization runs rampant in these fishes, and that judging from mtDNA alone taxa may appear to be closer to others than they actually are.(Nagl et al. 2001)

Given the fast speed of evolution in the tilapiines, nuclear DNA sequences probably would provide insufficient resolution to robustly resolve these fishes' phylogeny; more research is clearly necessary.

• Tilapia bakossiorum Stiassny, Schliewen & Dominey, 1992
• Tilapia baloni Trewavas & Stewart, 1975
• Tilapia bemini Thys van den Audenaerde, 1972
• Tilapia bilineata Pellegrin, 1900
• Tilapia brevimanus Boulenger, 1911
• Tilapia busumana Günther, 1903
• Zebra tilapia, Tilapia buttikoferi Hubrecht, 1881
• Tilapia bythobates Stiassny, Schliewen & Dominey, 1992
• Tilapia cabrae Boulenger, 1899
• Tilapia cameronensis Holly, 1927
• Tilapia camerunensis Lönnberg, 1903
• Tilapia cessiana Thys van den Audenaerde, 1968
• Tilapia coffea Thys van den Audenaerde, 1970
• Tilapia congica Poll & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1960
• Tilapia dageti Thys van den Audenaerde, 1971
• Tilapia deckerti Thys van den Audenaerde, 1967
• Tilapia discolor Günther, 1903
• Tilapia flava Stiassny, Schliewen & Dominey, 1992
• Tilapia guinasana Trewavas, 1936
• Tilapia guineensis Günther, 1862
• Tilapia gutturosa Stiassny, Schliewen & Dominey, 1992
• Tilapia imbriferna Stiassny, Schliewen & Dominey, 1992
• Tilapia ismailiaensis Mekkawy, 1995
• Tilapia jallae Boulenger, 1896
• Tilapia joka Thys van den Audenaerde, 1969
• Tilapia kottae Lönnberg, 1904
• Tilapia louka Thys van den Audenaerde, 1969
• Tilapia margaritacea Boulenger, 1916
• Spotted tilapia, Tilapia mariae Boulenger, 1899
• Tilapia nyongana Thys van den Audenaerde, 1971
• Tilapia rendalli Boulenger, 1897
• Tilapia rheophila Daget, 1962
• Tilapia ruweti Poll & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1965
• Tilapia snyderae Stiassny, Schliewen & Dominey, 1992
• Tilapia sparrmanii Smith, 1840
• Tilapia spongotroktis Stiassny, Schliewen & Dominey, 1992
• Tilapia tholloni Sauvage, 1884)
• Tilapia thysi Stiassny, Schliewen & Dominey, 1992
• Tilapia walteri Thys van den Audenaerde, 1968
• Tilapia zillii Gervais, 1848

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• "Tilapia". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. October 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
• Nagl, Sandra; Tichy, Herbert; Mayer, Werner E.; Samonte, Irene E.; McAndrew, Brendan J. & Klein, Jan (2001): Classification and Phylogenetic Relationships of African Tilapiine Fishes Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA Sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 20(3): 361–374. doi:10.1006/mpev.2001.0979