Description
Lates niloticus
Source/Photographer Iconographia Zoologica
Old Latin name Lates niloticus
New Latin name Lates niloticus
Common name Nederlands: Nijlbaars
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lates_niloticus_-_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ12900085.tif

The Nile perch (Lates niloticus) is a species of freshwater fish in family Latidae of order Perciformes. It is widespread throughout much of the Afrotropic ecozone, being native to the Congo, Nile, Senegal, Niger, and Lake Chad, Volta, Lake Turkana, and other river basins.