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Species
Rainbow Krib
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyCichlidae
Habitatbrackish, freshwater
Observations50
Observations recorded196
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 26
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Cichlidae
- Collections
- CAS, USNM, ROM, SIO, NHMUK, YPM
- Recorded in
- Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Afrique
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pelvicachromis
- Image
- Pelvicachromis pulcher Natural History Museum University of Pisa.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- taxon name
- Pelvicachromis pulcher
- Commons category
- Pelvicachromis pulcher
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons gallery
- Pelvicachromis pulcher
- taxon common name
- Tilapia
- short name
- P. pulcher
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Encyclopedic overview
Pelvicachromis pulcher is a freshwater fish of the cichlid family, endemic to Nigeria and Cameroon. It is popular amongst aquarium hobbyists, and is most commonly sold under the name kribensis, although it has other common names, including various derivatives and color morphs of the kribensis: krib, common krib, red krib, super-red krib and rainbow krib, along with rainbow cichlid and purple cichlid.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pelvicachromis pulcher” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.