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Range and habitat The Nile tilapia is native to larger parts of Africa , except Maghreb and almost all of Southern Africa . It is native to tropical West Africa , the Lake Chad basin, and much of the Nile system, including lakes Tana , Albert and Edward – George , as well as lakes Kivu , Tanganyika , and Turkana , and the Awash and Omo Rivers .
In Malaysia, the reason for its other common local name, translated to "The Sultan Fish" is attributed to the claim that the fish was a favorite among royal members and that palace workers would go to markets and call for any fishermen that had the Sultan's fish.
Habitat and ecology [ edit ] Halophilic Dunaliella species such as D. salina are notable for living all around the world in hypersaline environments such as salterns, salt lakes, and crystallizer ponds, with one unique subaerial species found growing on top of spider webs covering the walls of a cave in the Coastal Range of the Atacama Desert.
The Southern Ocean has supported fish habitats for 400 million years; however, modern notothenioids likely appeared sometime after the Eocene epoch. [3] This period marked the cooling of the Southern Ocean, resulting in the stable, frigid conditions that have persisted to the present day. [3]
The species suffers various threats, particularly deep-water fishing, increased siltation of the habitat, and pollution. [ 21 ] [ 17 ] Increased human activity specifically along the coastal shelf may lead to enhanced sedimentation and a decrease in the quantity and quality of the complex deep sea structures the coelacanths depend on.
The mackerel, tuna, and bonito family, Scombridae, includes many of the most important and familiar food fishes.The family consists of 51 species in 15 genera and two subfamilies.
Yellowtail scad (ikan selar) in Malaysia. The yellowtail scad is widely distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Indo-Pacific region. [ 4 ] In the Indian Ocean , the species is known from as far south as South Africa , distributed north along the east African coast including Madagascar , and further north to the Persian Gulf ...
Crazy fish are classified under the genus Butis in the family Butidae, which was formerly considered a subfamily, Butinae, of the family Eleotridae (sleeper gobies). They belong to the order Gobiiformes, [8] which to some authorities is a suborder of the order Perciformes called Gobioidei.