The Nile perch (Lates niloticus), also known as the African snook, Goliath perch, African barramundi, Goliath barramundi, Giant lates or the Victoria perch, is a species of freshwater fish in family Latidae of order Perciformes. It is widespread throughout much of the Afrotropical realm, being native to the Congo, Nile, Senegal, Niger and Lake Chad, Volta, Lake Turkana, and other river basins. It also occurs in the brackish waters of Lake Maryut in Egypt. The Nile perch is a fish of substantial economic and food-security importance in East Africa.[2] Originally described as Labrus niloticus, among the marine wrasses, the species has also been referred to as Centropomus niloticus. Common names include African snook, Victoria perch (a misleading trade name, as the species is not native to Lake Victoria, though they have been introduced there), and many local names in various African languages, such as the Luo name mbuta or mputa. In Tanzania, it is called sangara, sankara, or chenku. In Francophone African countries, it is known as capitaine. Its name in the Hausa language is giwan ruwa, meaning "water elephant".
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The Nileperch (Lates niloticus), also known as the African snook, Goliath perch, African barramundi, Goliath barramundi, Giant lates or the Victoria perch...
which live nowhere else, especially cichlids. Invasive fish, such as the Nileperch, have driven many endemic species to extinction. Geologically, Lake Victoria...
commercial and subsistence exploitation include species like Nileperch (Lates niloticus), Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), Pebbly Fish or Silversides...
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...
the site include: Nileperch, Tilapia, sprat and silverfish. Most fishermen engage in the fishing of silverfish, tilapia and Nileperch. Fisjh preservation...
largest inland fishery, with the majority of the catch being the invasive Nileperch, introduced in the Lake in the 1950s. In 1927-1928 Michael Graham conducted...
Nile tilapia. The demand is heavy, especially from local poor people, as this fish is affordable to the lowest income group in this area. Nileperch —...
The barramundi (Lates calcarifer), Asian sea bass, or giant sea perch (also known as dangri or apahap) is a species of catadromous fish in the family...
introduced the Nile perch into Lake Victoria, possibly to improve sport fishing and boost the fishery. In the 1980s, the Nileperch population saw a large...
fishery from multi-species to just three: the Nileperch, the silver cyprinid, and another introduced fish, the Nile tilapia. The haplochromine cichlid populations...
outside their native ranges to provide fishing stocks. The freshwater Nileperch, a fierce predator, has become infamous, as its introduction into Lake...
(ナイルパーチの女子会, NilePerch Women's Club), a story about two women whose lives intersect as one blackmails the other, was published by Bungeishunjū. NilePerch Women's...
status of the Nileperch. Despite being the largest by far, less than 50 haplochromine species survive in the main section where the Nileperch is common...
other water bodies. The target fish species for the gillnet fishery are Nileperch, tilapia, Bagrus, Clarias, Protopterus, Alestes, Hydrocynus and many other...
"flat-faced man of Kenya". Fishing—primarily of tilapia species but also of Nileperch—provides the main livelihood for people in the region. With four Great...
name, lates, for many of the species. All species are predatory, and the Nileperch (L. niloticus), in particular, has become infamous as an invasive species...
fishing grounds rich with Nileperch. An unusual claim in 2009 by some Kenyan fishermen was that since none of the Nileperch breed in Uganda (the nearest...
Brown nightjar and the Bat Hawk, and 700 species of fish like the Nile Tilapia, NilePerch and the Giraffe Catfish. Threats to the rainforests include destruction...
unknown– populations survive). Because of the introduced Nileperch (Lates niloticus), Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), and water hyacinth, deforestation...
sizes are increasingly rare. One of the largest freshwater fishes is the Nileperch (Lates niloticus), which grows up to 200 kg (440 lb) and 2 m (6.6 ft)...
January 2013 at the Wayback Machine Gonomad.com. Accessed July 2011. "NilePerch." Aquaticcommunity.com. Accessed July 2011. Kaufman, Les. "Catastrophic...
plethora of over 200 species of fish, however economically tilapia and nileperch are important. The Mara Region is mostly covered with natural vegetation...
endemic to Lake Tanganyika, and are related to (but not the same as) the Nileperch in Lake Victoria. All of these pelagic fish have suffered from overfishing...
Caridina nilotica in Lake Victoria (East Africa), before and after the Nileperch increase". Hydrobiologia. 563 (1): 31–44. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.632.980. doi:10...
export value of US$130 million reported in 2003, with the export of the Nileperch accounting for a major share of US$100 million. Tanzania’s wildlife, extolled...
the process of mummification. According to the Museum of Liverpool, the Nileperch was one of the species mummified and offered to the gods; one of these...
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