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IN a recent communication, C. F. Hickling reports on hybrids between Malayan Tilapia mossambica stock and an East African one. It may be of interest, therefore, to record our observations, which indicate that hybridization among this genus might be more common than it is generally believed.
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YASHOUV, A., CHERVINSKY, J. Hybrids of Tilapia nilotica × T. galilea. Nature 184, 1739 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841739a0
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