#2190 · 🐟 fish
Mozambique Tilapia
🇳🇱 Mozambique-tilapia ·Oreochromis mossambicus
📍 Garden Route Botanical Garden
📍 Tai Shui Hang South Street, Ma On Shan, New Territories, HK
📍 Garden Route Botanical Garden
📍 Ripple Creek, BVC, Gwanda, Zimbabwe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Christian Schwarz · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Greg Hume · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. © conabio-pj010 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © IHUNTA · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Claire · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Kane · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Garden Route Botanical Garden:© Colin Ralston · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Tai Shui Hang South Street, Ma On Shan, New Territories, HK:© Tse Chung Yi · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Garden Route Botanical Garden:© Colin Ralston · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Ripple Creek, BVC, Gwanda, Zimbabwe:© GLENN STOCKIL · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
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base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 5,801 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Wilhelm Peters in 1852 (174 years ago).
- Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Mozambique Tilapia
- Nederlands
- Mozambique-tilapia
- scientific name
- Oreochromis mossambicus
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Cichliformes
- family
- Cichlidae
- IUCN Red List
- VU · vulnerable
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1
- sightings worldwide
- 5,801
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1852 by Wilhelm Peters
IUCN in Dutch: kwetsbaar. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Cichlidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 107889, Wikidata Q1348685, GBIF 2372396, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.