The Nile perch, also known by many local and trade names including African snook and Victoria perch, is a large freshwater fish native to the Congo, Nile, Senegal and Niger river basins, Lake Chad, the Volta system and Lake Turkana, and it also occurs in the brackish waters of Egypt's Lake Maryut. Though not native to Lake Victoria, it has been introduced there and is a fish of major economic and food-security importance across East Africa.
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Classification
System (Realm) Living or ExtinctDerived from this species' own Conservation Status: this atlas's IUCN category list has no Extinct value, so a set conservation-status is itself evidence of living status (w-bfill-g5-0924 browse backfill). Scientific Name Conservation Status Connections
In Ecosystem
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1. Wikipedia: Nile perch
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Originally described as Labrus niloticus, among the marine wrasses, the species has also been referred to as Centropomus niloticus.
2. Nile Perch (Wikipedia)
WikipediaTaxonomic classification section
Lates niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Conservation status box
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
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World Wildlife Fund- In Ecosystem: African Great Lakes
- In Ecosystem: Lake Victoria
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