Description
Lates niloticus
Date 1923
Source Les poissons des eaux douces de l'Afrique occidentale : du Sénégal au Niger Pellegrin, Jacques, 1873-1944
Author Unknown
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lates_niloticus_1923.jpg

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.