Freshwater ecoregion · Africa · lake

Lake Tanganyika

2727 species in the atlas are recorded from this freshwater ecoregion. It sits within Lake Tanganyika.

Ecoregion boundaries follow the Freshwater Ecoregions of the World (FEOW) framework; species are placed here from the documented range in each species profile.

Where these cichlids live

12,676 georeferenced records of this ecoregion's cichlids (GBIF + type localities; sampled). Click a point for the species.

Cichlids recorded here

Altolamprologus · 93

Astatoreochromis · 6

Astatotilapia · 8

Aulonocranus · 22

Baileychromis · 4

Bathybates · 19

Benthochromis · 23

Boulengerochromis · 18

Callochromis · 37

Cardiopharynx · 2

Chalinochromis · 26

Cunningtonia · 11

Cyathopharynx · 96

Cyphotilapia · 89

Cyprichromis · 97

Ectodus · 12

Eretmodus · 95

Gnathochromis · 26

Grammatotria · 7

Greenwoodochromis · 12

Haplotaxodon · 14

Hemibates · 3

Interochromis · 13

Julidochromis · 113

Lamprologus · 86

Lepidiolamprologus · 56

Lestradea · 10

Limnochromis · 9

Limnotilapia · 3

Lobochilotes · 10

Neolamprologus · 616

Ophthalmotilapia · 168

Oreochromis · 5

Orthochromis · 1

Paracyprichromis · 70

Perissodus · 30

Petrochromis · 108

Pseudosimochromis · 28

Reganochromis · 5

Shuja · 10

Simochromis · 7

Spathodus · 12

Tangachromis · 2

Tanganicodus · 22

Telmatochromis · 74

Trematocara · 31

Trematochromis · 4

Triglachromis · 7

Tropheus · 292

Tylochromis · 6

Variabilichromis · 22

Xenochromis · 4

Xenotilapia · 183

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