Key Identification Features
- Similarly, populations from coastal northwestern Africa are genetically quite distinct from other redbelly tilapia populations.
- facetus specimens have four abdominal bars; this feature is only present in half of individuals of its close related species.
- Individuals from Belize have distinctly unique stripes; this is likely due to different habitat variables that produce a body morphology different from that of conspecifics in Mexico and Guatemala.
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