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Nile Perch

Fish

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.

Facts
Classification
System (Realm)
Marine and Freshwater 1
Relationship to People
Farmed or Commercially Raised 2
Relationship to People
Invasive or Introduced Species 2
Living or Extinct
Yes 2
Derived 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
Lates niloticus 2
Conservation Status
Least Concern 2
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Lates, Taxa
Source Wikidata: Nile Perch

In Biome

River, Biomes
Source Nile Perch (Wikipedia)

In Ecosystem

African Great Lakes, Ecosystems
Source World Wildlife Fund
Lake Victoria, Ecosystems
Source World Wildlife Fund
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Australia, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Chad, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Cote d'Ivoire, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Cuba, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Egypt, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Ethiopia, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Guinea, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Guinea-Bissau, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Indonesia, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Japan, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Kenya, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Republic of the Congo, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Senegal, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Sierra Leone, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: South Africa, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Spain, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Tanzania, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Uganda, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: United States, found in there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Nile perch
system (MediaWiki batch-API article extract states it plainly)
Quote, system (MediaWiki batch-API article extract states it plainly)
Originally described as Labrus niloticus, among the marine wrasses, the species has also been referred to as Centropomus niloticus.
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2. Nile Perch (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • Taxonomic classification section
    Lates niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Conservation status box
    Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
  • article text (relationship to people), EntityId 286023
    The Nile perch is also popular with sport anglers, as it attacks artificial fishing lures, and it is also raised in aquaculture.
  • In Biome: River, Wikipedia intro: "ealm, being native to the Congo, Nile, Senegal, Niger and Lake Chad, Volta, Lake Turkana, and other river basins. It also occurs in the brackish waters of Lake..."
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Wikidata: Nile Perch
  • Wikidata Q654130, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Child Taxon Of: Lates, Wikidata P171 (parent taxon) claim, rank=normal, target=Q787185 (Lates)
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World Wildlife Fund
World Wildlife Fund
  • In Ecosystem: African Great Lakes
  • In Ecosystem: Lake Victoria
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