#2179 · 🐟 fish
Nile Tilapia
🇳🇱 Nijltilapia ·Oreochromis niloticus
📍 Saul Kere, Kaikondrahalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560035
📍 Villa Las Flores, Puerto Vallarta, Jal., Mexico
📍 Morelia, Mich., México
📍 Maricopa County, AZ, USA
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Lorenz Seebauer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Austin D West · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © uconnbirdfish · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 4. © Mitchel Buckner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © shmavin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © sisor · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Saul Kere, Kaikondrahalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560035:© Praveen T · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Villa Las Flores, Puerto Vallarta, Jal., Mexico:© Antonio Robles · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. Morelia, Mich., México:© SIRUKI EDUCACIÓN AMBIENTAL A.C. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Maricopa County, AZ, USA:© uconnbirdfish · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
what is it?
The Nile tilapia ( Oreochromis niloticus ) is a species of tilapia, a cichlid fish native to Africa from Egypt south to east and central Africa, and as far west as Gambia. , Brazil). It is also commercially known as mango fish, nilotica , or boulti . The first name leads to easy confusion with another tilapia traded commercially, the mango tilapia ( Sarotherodon galilaeus ).
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.
- 8,532 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Nile Tilapia
- Nederlands
- Nijltilapia
- scientific name
- Oreochromis niloticus
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Cichliformes
- family
- Cichlidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 10
- sightings worldwide
- 8,532
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Cichlidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 121324, Wikidata Q311170, GBIF 4285694, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.