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Nile perch can grow to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) and 200 kg (440 lb). [12] The introduction of this species to Lake Victoria is one of the most cited examples of the negative effects alien species can have on ecosystems. [13] The Nile perch was introduced to Lake Victoria in East Africa in the 1950s, [14] [15] and has since been fished commercially. In ...
Lates is a genus of freshwater and euryhaline lates perches belonging to the family Latidae.The generic name is also used as a common name, lates, for many of the species. [5]
Perch is a common name for freshwater fish from the genus Perca, which belongs to the family Percidae of the large order Perciformes. The name comes from Greek : πέρκη , romanized : perke , meaning the type species of this genus, the European perch ( P. fluviatilis ).
Lives in fresh water and estuaries, migrating to spawn in the Sargasso Sea. American fourspot flounder: Hippoglossina oblonga: American gizzard shad: Dorosoma cepedianum: American harvestfish: Peprilus paru: American paddlefish: Polyodon spathula [5] American pickerel: Esox americanus: Also known as Redfin pickerel, brook pickerel, and Grass ...
By the 1980s, the 'explosion' of this species was being referred to as the Nile perch 'boom'. Catches climbed from about 335 mt in 1975, to a peak of 380,776 mt in 1990. [Note 3] The second impact was the Nile perch's devastation of the haplochromine species flock, its main food source. Catches of this species crashed.
Perciformes (/ ˈ p ɜːr s ɪ ˌ f ɔːr m iː z /), also called the Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish in the clade Percomorpha. Perciformes means "perch-like".". Among the well-known members of this group are perches and darters (), and also sea basses and groupers
The Latidae, known as the lates perches, are a family of perch-like fish found in Africa, Asia, and the Indian and western Pacific Oceans.Including about 13 species, the family, previously classified subfamily Latinae in family Centropomidae, was raised to family status in 2004 after a cladistic analysis showed the original Centropomidae were paraphyletic.
The silver cyprinid is the only native fish species which has remained abundant in Lake Victoria since the introduction of the Nile perch, Lates niloticus and Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus to the lake. These two species have almost wiped out the ende zooplankton eating haplochromine cichlids thus reducing competition for this species.