Species that contain: Tilapia and sparrmanii [ 5 ] records

deschauenseei, Tilapia Fowler [H. W.] 1931:240, Fig. 2 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 83; ref. 1409] Botletle River at Maun, Bechuanaland [Botswana]. Holotype (unique): ANSP 53194. Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:57 [ref. 13621]. •Synonym of Tilapia sparrmanii Smith 1840 -- (Teugels & Thys van den Audenaerde 1991:501 [ref. 20943], Seegers 1996:327 [ref. 23725]). Current status: Synonym of Tilapia sparrmanii Smith 1840. Cichlidae: Pseudocrenilabrinae. Habitat: freshwater.

fouloni, Tilapia Boulenger [G. A.] 1905:647 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7) v. 16 (no. 96) (art. 72); ref. 15342] Lake Bangwelo [Bangweolo], Zambia. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1905.11.10.12. •Synonym of Tilapia sparrmanii Smith 1840 -- (Teugels & Thys van den Audenaerde 1991:501 [ref. 20943], Seegers 1996:327 [ref. 23725]). Current status: Synonym of Tilapia sparrmanii Smith 1840. Cichlidae: Pseudocrenilabrinae. Habitat: freshwater.

moffatii, Chromys Castelnau [F. L.] 1861:16 [Mémoire sur les poissons de l'Afrique australe; ref. 767] Kuruman River, tributary of Orange River, South Africa. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1978:46 [ref. 20862]. Original genus should have been Chromis. •Synonym of Pseudocrenilabrus philander (Weber 1897) subspecies dispersus (Trewavas 1936) -- (Skelton 1991:396 [ref. 20950]). •Synonym of Tilapia sparrmanii Smith 1840 -- (Teugels & Thys van den Audenaerde 1991:501 [ref. 20943], Seegers 1996:327 [ref. 23725]). Current status: Synonym of Tilapia sparrmanii Smith 1840. Cichlidae: Pseudocrenilabrinae. Habitat: freshwater.

ovalis, Chromis Steindachner [F.] 1866:761, Pl. 15 (fig. 3) [Verhandlungen der K.-K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien v. 16; ref. 18789] Angola. Holotype (unique): NMW 32597. •Synonym of Pseudocrenilabrus philander (Weber 1897) subspecies dispersus (Trewavas 1936) -- (Skelton 1991:396 [ref. 20950]). •Synonym of Tilapia sparrmanii Smith 1840 -- (Teugels & Thys van den Audenaerde 1991:501 [ref. 20943], Seegers 1996:327 [ref. 23725]). Current status: Synonym of Tilapia sparrmanii Smith 1840. Cichlidae: Pseudocrenilabrinae. Habitat: freshwater.

sparrmanii, Tilapia Smith [A.] 1840:no pagination, Pl. 5 [Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa v. 4; ref. 4035] Namaqualand, streams north of Orange River, South Africa. Lectotype: BMNH 1859.5.7.85 (skin in alcohol). Paralectotypes: BMNH 1851.10.26.84 (1, stuffed). Lectotype selected by Seegers 1996:327 [ref. 23725]. •Valid as Tilapia sparrmanii Smith 1840 -- (Trewavas 1981:42 [ref. 39520], Trewavas 1982:12 [ref. 39521], Teugels & Thys van den Audenaerde 1991:499 [ref. 20943], Skelton 1993:320 [ref. 24071], Poll & Gosse 1995:289 [ref. 24781], Seegers 1996:327 [ref. 23725], Fuller et al. 1999:450 [ref. 25838] as sparmanni, Hay et al. 1999:42 [ref. 40428], Skelton 2001:320 [ref. 27406], Marshall 2011:235 [ref. 31755], Dunz & Schliewen 2013:75 [ref. 32672], Kramer et al. 2016:unnumbered p. [ref. 34331], Bruton et al. 2018:103 [ref. 36373], Skelton 2019:236 [ref. 36564], Munene et al. 2021:25 [ref. 39283], Abwe et al. 2023:32 [ref. 39992]). Current status: Valid as Tilapia sparrmanii Smith 1840. Cichlidae: Pseudocrenilabrinae. Distribution: Central and southern Africa. Habitat: freshwater.