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Aquatic Life of Tanzania

Lake Tanganyika is one of the great evolutionary showcases on earth, and at Mahale the shoreline shelves into water clear enough to snorkel among hundreds of cichlid species found in no other lake.

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Lake Tanganyika Cichlids

Family Cichlidae — Lake Tanganyika radiation

Around 250 fish species found nowhere else on earth, in the clearest water on the Mahale shore — snorkelling reveals them a metre from the beach.

Fish · Cichlidae Mahale Mountains National Park — the Lake Tanganyika shoreline… Common and easily seen while snorkelling in the clear shallows…

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