VU — Vulnerable

Oreochromis mossambicus

Conservation status data sourced from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

↓Decreasing

Population trend

102

Countries

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01 — Classification

Taxonomy & Classification

Kingdom

ANIMALIA

Phylum

CHORDATA

Class

ACTINOPTERYGII

Order

CICHLIFORMES

Family

CICHLIDAE

Genus

Oreochromis

Oreochromis mossambicus belongs to the family CICHLIDAE, order CICHLIFORMES, within the ACTINOPTERYGII class.

03 — Habitat

Habitat & Distribution

Marine coastal/supratidalMajorMarine neriticMajor

04 — Threats

Threats

Introduced genetic material

Ongoing

06 — Range

Found in 102 Countries

Angola Argentina Aruba Australia Bahamas Bangladesh Barbados Belgium Botswana Brazil Cayman Islands China Colombia Congo - Kinshasa Cook Islands Costa Rica Côte d’Ivoire Cuba Curaçao Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Eswatini Ethiopia Fiji France French Guiana French Polynesia Germany Ghana Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong SAR China India Indonesia Israel Jamaica Japan Kenya Kiribati Laos Lesotho Macao SAR China Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Martinique Mauritius Mexico Mozambique Myanmar (Burma)Namibia New Caledonia Nicaragua Nigeria Northern Mariana Islands Oman Pakistan Palau Palestinian Territories Panama Papua New Guinea Philippines Puerto Rico Réunion Russia São Tomé & Príncipe Seychelles Singapore Sint Maarten Solomon Islands South Africa Spain Sri Lanka St. Barthélemy St. Kitts & Nevis St. Lucia Suriname Taiwan Tanzania Thailand Timor-Leste Tonga Trinidad & Tobago U.S. Virgin Islands Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Wallis & Futuna Zambia Zimbabwe

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07 — Sources

Sources & Attribution

How to Cite

IUCN: IUCN (2025). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2025-1. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-1.RLTS

GBIF: GBIF.org (2025). GBIF Home Page. Available at: https://www.gbif.org

This page: SpeciesRadar (2026). Oreochromis mossambicus (Oreochromis mossambicus). SpeciesRadar: Intelligence for Earth's Biodiversity. Available at: https://speciesradar.org/species/mozambique-tilapia

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