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Tilapia (/ t ɪ ˈ l ɑː p i ə / 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]
The redtail catfish, Phractocephalus hemioliopterus, is a large species of South American pimelodid (long-whiskered) catfish. It is known in Venezuelan Spanish as cajaro; in Guyana, it is known as a banana catfish, and in Brazil it is known as pirarara, [ 3 ] a fusion of words from the indigenous Tupi language: pirá and arara. [ 4 ]
The Atlantic tripletail ( Lobotes surinamensis ), also known as the black grunt, black perch, bouy fish, bouyfish, brown triple tail, brown tripletail, conchy leaf, dusky triple-tail, dusky tripletail, flasher, sleepfish, triple tail, triple-tail, tripletail, or tripple tail is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lobotidae.
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Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups. Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings. Scientific names for individual species and higher taxa are included in parentheses.
The saddled seabream has the generic name Oblada, this is a latinisation of oblado, a vernacular name for this species in Marseille, one of three names (the others being blade and hibaldo) as recorded by Morten Thrane Brünnich in 1768. Its specific name melanurus means “black tail” and is an allusion to the large black spot on the caudal ...
Heros lobochilus Günther, 1867. Cichlasoma dorsatum Meek, 1907. Amphilophus labiatum, female. Amphilophus labiatus is a large cichlid fish endemic to Lake Managua and Lake Nicaragua in Central America. It is also known by the common name red devil cichlid, which it shares with another closely related cichlid, A. citrinellus .