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Southern Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania
Tanzania, Southern Lake Tanganyika
This biotope features piles of rockwork forming lots of caves & hiding places. Where it houses the Neolamprologus leleupi that inhabits only rocky areas along the shoreline of Lake Tanganyika. Endemic to Lake Tanganyika, It is found only in the southern part of the lake, but is fairly wide ranging.
Lake Tanganyika is the world’s longest freshwater lake: 676km long and 50km wide located in Central Africa on the borders of Tanzania, DRC, Zambia and Burundi.
- Submitted by
- Rex Ribay
- Approved by
- Ad Konings & Anton Lamboj
- Geographical region
- Eastern Africa
- Drainage Basin
- River catchment
- Water body type
- Lake
- Water body name
- Lake Tanganyika
- Water body part
- Open water
- Water body course
- Water body: tributary of
- Tributary name
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Water Chemistry
Water information
- Water type
- fresh-water
- Water color
- Mixed water
- Water transparency
- High
- Concentration of sediments
- Medium
- Water temperature
- 23-27°C °C
- Water flow/curent
- Slow
Chemical parameters
- pH
- 9
- Conductivity
- GH
- 142-445 mg/l
- dGH
- KH
- dKH
- Dissolved Oxygen
Substrate in nature
- Sand
- Grey
- Pebble/Gravel
- Stone
- Grey
- Stone form
- Flat
- Silt/Mud
- Leaves
- Driftwood
- Submerged terrestrial vegetation
Aquatic Biotope
- Date of collecting
- Collecting area
- Shore line
- Water depth
- 1,0m
- Air temperature
- 25 °C
- Sunlight
- Partial shade
Environment
- Surrounding area
- Underwater landscape
- Threats to ecology
Bibliography
-
The Cichlids Yearbook, Volume 3 - Neolamprologus leleupi
by Mary Bailey
Comment by the expert
Ad Konings: Criteria 2: No information of other organisms in habitat given. Criteria 4: The single reference (Bibliography) given has an incorrect author and judging from the very few details supplied (some incorrect) the article was not consulted. Sitography: A webpage from a commercial shop with incorrect information and the standard Wikipedia page about Lake Tanganyika.
Anton Lamboj: Simple inputs.
