Global InformationAstatotilapia flaviijosephi information
| Astatotilapia flaviijosephi | |
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Conservation status
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 Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cichliformes |
| Family: | Cichlidae |
| Genus: | Astatotilapia |
| Species: | A. flaviijosephi
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| Binomial name | |
| Astatotilapia flaviijosephi (Lortet, 1883)
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| Synonyms | |
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Astatotilapia flaviijosephi, the Jordan mouthbrooder, is a vulnerable species of freshwater fish in the family Cichlidae (cichlids).[1] It is found in the central Jordan River system, including Lake Tiberias (Kinneret), in Israel, Jordan and Syria,[1][2] making it the only haplochromine cichlid to naturally range outside of Africa.[3][4] This species is too small to be of significant importance to fisheries,[5] unlike the only other cichlids native to the Levant, the economically important tilapias (Oreochromis aureus, O. niloticus, Sarotherodon galilaeus, Coptodon zillii and Tristramella).[3][6]
The specific name flaviijosephi refers to the historian Titus Flavius Josephus (37–c. 100 CE).[7]
- ^ a b c Freyhof, J. (2014). "Haplochromis flaviijosephi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T61348A19009964. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T61348A19009964.en. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Astatotilapia flaviijosephi" in FishBase. October 2019 version.
- ^ a b Werner, N.Y.; O. Mokady (2004). "Swimming out of Africa: mitochondrial DNA evidence for late Pliocene dispersal of a cichlid from Central Africa to the Levant". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 82 (1): 103–109. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00321.x.
- ^ Steeves, G. (2019). "Astatotilapia flaviijosephi". cichlid-forum. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ Spataru, P.; M. Gophen (1985). "Food composition and feeding habits of Astatotilapia flaviijosephi (Lortet) in Lake Kinneret (Israel)". Journal of Fish Biology. 26 (5): 503–507. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.1985.tb04290.x.
- ^ Shapiro, J.; Z. Snovsky (1997). "The effect of the 1991/1992 winter upon the fishing industry of Lake Kinneret, Israel". Fisheries Management and Ecology. 4 (3): 249–252. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2400.1997.00122.x.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 July 2018). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (a-g)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 28 November 2018.