Redbelly tilapia

Redbelly tilapia
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Cichlidae
Genus:	Coptodon
Species:	C. zillii
Binomial name
	Coptodon zillii; (Gervais, 1848)
Synonyms
	Acerina zillei Gervais, 1848 (misspelling); ; Acerina zillii Gervais, 1848; Chromis andreae Günther, 1864; Chromis caeruleomaculatus Rochebrune, 1880 (misspelling); Chromis coeruleomaculatus Rochebrune, 1880; Chromis faidherbii Rochebrune, 1880; Chromis melanopleura (Duméril, 1861); Chromis menzalensis Mitchell, 1895; Chromis tristrami (Günther, 1860); Chromis zillii (Gervais, 1848); Coptodon zillei (Gervais, 1848) (misspelling); Coptodus zillei (Gervais, 1848) (misspelling); Coptodus zillii (Gervais, 1848); Glyphisidon zillei (Gervais, 1848) (misspelling); Glyphisidon zillii (Gervais, 1848); Haligenes tristrami Günther, 1860; Sarotherodon zillei (Gervais, 1848) (misspelling); Sarotherodon zillii (Gervais, 1848); Tilapia caeruleomaculatus (Rochebrune, 1880) (misspelling); Tilapia faidherbi (Rochebrune, 1880) (misspelling); Tilapia melanopleura Duméril, 1861; Tilapia menzalensis (Mitchell, 1895); Tilapia multiradiata Holly, 1928; Tilapia shariensis Fowler, 1949; Tilapia sparrmani multiradiata Holly, 1928; Tilapia tristrami (Günther, 1860); Tilapia zillei (Gervais, 1848) (misspelling); Tilapia zilli (Gervais, 1848) (misspelling); Tilapia zillii (Gervais, 1848);

The redbelly tilapia (Coptodon zillii) is a species of fish in the cichlid family. It is found widely in Africa and the Middle East, but has also been introduced outside its native range.^[2] It is an important food fish and sometimes seen in the aquarium trade. Its natural habitats are marginal vegetation and seasonal floodplain streams, lakes, and ponds. It was formerly included in the genus Tilapia as Tilapia zillii.^[2]

Species of "St. Peter's fish"

The Coptodon zillii found in the Sea of Galilee is known as "Common St. Peter's fish" or simply "St. Peter's fish", in Arabic musht, lit. "comb", a term adopted also into Modern Hebrew.^[3] There are two other species also known as St. Peter's fish: the "Galilee St. Peter's fish" (Mango tilapia, Sarotherodon galileus; Arabic musht 'abyad), which is white and larger than the common version, and the large, dark "Jordan St. Peter's fish" (Oreochromis aureus, blue tilapia or Israeli tilapia), which traditionally used to swim to the Sea of Galilee coming down the Jordan River from Lake Huleh.^[3]

References

^ http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=282980
^ ^a ^b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2016). "Coptodon zillii" in FishBase. September 2016 version.
^ ^a ^b Aharon Geva-Kleinberger, Autochthonous Texts in the Arabic Dialect of the Jews of Tiberias, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbanden 2009, volume 046, pp. 67 and 107, ISBN 978-3-447-05934-3 [1]

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[1] ttp://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=282980

[fishbase-2] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2016). "Coptodon zillii" in FishBase. September 2016 version.

[GevaK-3] Aharon Geva-Kleinberger, Autochthonous Texts in the Arabic Dialect of the Jews of Tiberias, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbanden 2009, volume 046, pp. 67 and 107, ISBN 978-3-447-05934-3 [1]

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