Tilapia | 水產百科網

Tilapiaisthecommonnamefornearlyahundredspeciesofcichlidfishfromthecoelotilapine,coptodonine,heterotilapine,oreochromine,pelmatolapiine,and ...

Common name for many cichlid species of fish

Tilapia ( tih-LAH-pee-ə) is the common name for nearly a hundred species of cichlid fish from the coelotilapine, coptodonine, heterotilapine, oreochromine, pelmatolapiine, and tilapiine tribes (formerly all were "Tilapiini"), with the economically most important species placed in the Coptodonini and Oreochromini.[2] Tilapia are mainly freshwater fish inhabiting shallow streams, ponds, rivers, and lakes, and less commonly found living in brackish water. Historically, they have been of major importance in ...