Coelotilapia joka
Coelotilapia joka is a vulnerable species of cichlid fish from rivers in Sierra Leone and Liberia in West Africa. This relatively small tilapia formerly was included in the genus Tilapia, but in 2013 it was moved to its own genus Coelotilapia and tribe Coelotilapini.
| Coelotilapia joka | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cichliformes |
| Family: | Cichlidae |
| Subfamily: | Pseudocrenilabrinae |
| Tribe: | Coelotilapini |
| Genus: | Coelotilapia Dunz & Schliewen, 2013 |
| Species: | C. joka |
| Binomial name | |
| Coelotilapia joka (Thys van den Audenaerde, 1969) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Tilapia joka Thys van den Audenaerde, 1969 | |
It is an oval shaped fish with a black body coloring. Eight to nine yellow, transverse stripes mark the body. The head has small, irregular yellow lines that extend from the eye to the snout, forehead, and mouth. It is one of the few tilapia species that regularly are kept in aquariums.
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