In addition, in view of the large contribution that tilapia was making to the nutrition of the country's citizens, other species that also belong to the Cichlidae family were constantly introduced into Taiwan, interbreeding with tilapia, which was originally the Mozambique variety (Tilapia mossambica).
另一方面，眼見吳郭魚對於國民營養的重大貢獻，同屬慈鯛科的其他魚種也不斷被引進國內，與原屬「莫三比克種」的吳郭魚雜交、混種。