ReviewJournal of Great Lakes research2020
The taxonomic diversity of the cichlid fish fauna of ancient Lake Tanganyika, East Africa.
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- Nonapeptide molecular evolution during the adaptive radiation of Tanganyika cichlids.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2026Article
- Repeated evolution of cooperative breeding and life history traits in Lake Tanganyika cichlids.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Phylogenomic and Population Genomic Analyses of Ultraconserved Elements Reveal Deep Coalescence and Introgression Shaped Diversification Patterns in Lamprologine Cichlids of the Congo River.Systematic biology · 2025Article
- ZW and XY Sex Chromosomes Drive Rapid and Distinctive Evolution of Sex-Biased Gene Expression.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Morphological diversity of the genus Telmatochromis from the Lake Tanganyika drainage with the description of a new riverine species and the generic reassignment of the Malagarasi River lamprologine.Journal of fish biology · 2025Article
- Novel complete mitochondrial genomes of eight riverineMitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources · 2025Article
- A whole-body micro-CT scan library that captures the skeletal diversity of Lake Malawi cichlid fishes.Scientific data · 2024Article
- Generalist species exhibit more genetic structure in comparison to a habitat specialist: Evidence from a phylogeographic study of two freshwater crabs (Decapoda: Potamonautidae:Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
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- African cichlid fishes: morphological data and taxonomic insights from a genus-level survey of supraneurals, pterygiophores, and vertebral counts (Ovalentaria, Blenniiformes, Cichlidae, Pseudocrenilabrinae).Biodiversity data journal · 2024Article
- Visual opsin gene expression evolution in the adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes of Lake Tanganyika.Science advances · 2023Article
- No evidence for sex chromosomes in natural populations of the cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2023Article
- All quiet on the western front? The evolutionary history of monogeneans (Dactylogyridae: Cichlidogyrus, Onchobdella) infecting a West and Central African tribe of cichlid fishes (Chromidotilapiini).Parasite (Paris, France) · 2023Article
- Phylogenomics of trophically diverse cichlids disentangles processes driving adaptive radiation and repeated trophic transitions.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Tracing evolutionary decoupling of oral and pharyngeal jaws in cichlid fishes.Evolution letters · 2021Article
- Speciation dynamics and extent of parallel evolution along a lake-stream environmental contrast in African cichlid fishes.Science advances · 2021Article
- Sex-biased gene expression and recent sex chromosome turnover.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
Ancient Lake Tanganyika in East Africa houses the world's ecologically and morphologically most diverse assemblage of cichlid fishes, and the third most species-rich after lakes Malawi and Victoria. Despite long-lasting scientific interest in the cichlid species flocks of the East African Great Lakes, for example in the context of adaptive radiation and explosive diversification, their taxonomy and systematics are only partially explored; and many cichlid species still await their formal description. Here, we provide a current inventory of the cichlid fish fauna of Lake Tanganyika, providing a complete list of all valid 208 Tanganyikan cichlid species, and discuss the taxonomic status of more than 50 undescribed taxa on the basis of the available literature as well as our own observations and collections around the lake. This leads us to conclude that there are at least 241 cichlid species present in Lake Tanganyika, all but two are endemic to the basin. We finally summarize some of the major taxonomic challenges regarding Lake Tanganyika's cichlid fauna. The taxonomic inventory of the cichlid fauna of Lake Tanganyika presented here will facilitate future research on the taxonomy and systematics and the ecology and evolution of the species flock, as well as its conservation.
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