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Lake - Freshwater
Fish of the Lake Tanganyika
The second-deepest and second-oldest lake in the world - a rift lake in East Africa with 240+ endemic cichlid species found nowhere else.
Continent: Africa Area: 32,893 km² Max Depth: 1,470m Climate: Tropical
📖 Overview
Lake Tanganyika is one of Earths great biological laboratories. Formed 9-12 million years ago in the East African Rift, its deep, ancient waters produced an explosion of cichlid diversity - shell-dwellers, sand-sifters, pelagic predators, rock specialists. Aquarists worldwide keep dozens of Tanganyikan species.
🐟 Notable Species
Tropheus (many color morphs), Julidochromis, Neolamprologus (shell-dwellers), Cyprichromis (feather fins), goliath tigerfish, Nile perch.