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General Category => Word Games => Topic started by: yelnats on April 30, 2019, 05:59:14 PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia)
I tried the word in the 7 by many 29 April '19, but not known.
As Tilapia is the fourth-most consumed fish in the United States dating back to 2002. The popularity of tilapia came about due to its low price, easy preparation, and mild taste
, a native of Africa, and a problematic invasive species in new warm-water habitats such as Australia
Tilapia is the official fish of the state of India,
maybe it should even be common.
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Tilapia is accepted in Chihuahua, yelnats. But if you tried "tilipia", as in the heading of your post, it would be rejected as it's not in any dictionary with that spelling.
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Ooops!
Sorry, it was getting late when I did it.
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Let's just think of it as the one that got away.
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Just to point out at this juncture, many of the fishes previously placed in the Genus Tilapia have since been relocated to other Genera, such as Sarotherodon. There's also a brace of Genera among the African Cichlids that contain -tilapia as a suffix, such as Chromidotilapia, Astatotilapia, Chilotilapia, Coelotilapia, Cynotilapia, Cyphotilapia (the species Cyphotilapia frontosa is an expensive aquarium fish costing $200 a pop in the US), Hemitilapia, Heterotilapia, Limnotilapia, Paratilapia, Petrotilapia (the species Petrotilapia tridentiger is a beautiful purple coloured aquarium fish, but one with a vicious temperament), and Xenotilapia.
There's also a brace of relations such as Alcolapia alcalicus, which lives in the waters of Lake Natron, an environment most people would consider to be completely inimical to fish life, given that the water of this lake is as as alkaline as a household ammonia solution, and has a dissolved content of sodium carbonate that would kill most other fish.
Here's an image of the nice purple Petrotilapia tridentiger:
(https://alchetron.com/cdn/petrotilapia-41bef480-5660-4bb2-b9a9-0aec500a73c-resize-750.jpg)
The woefully expensive Cyphotilapia frontosa looks like this:
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The Dogtooth Cichlid, Cynotilapia afra, looks like this:
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And the hilariously named "Eastern Happy", Astatotilapia calliptera, looks like this:
(http://www.tropical-fish-keeping.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Eastern-Happy-Astatotilapia-calliptera..jpg)
For those who like variety among their fish, the Cichlidae contains something like 2,500 species, of which 1,700 or more are African, and 1,400 or so known from the Rift Lakes.