''Bathybates leo'' is a species of

fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of ...

in the family Cichlidae. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...

to Lake Tanganyika where it forms schools and feeds mainly on clupeids.

References

leo Taxa named by Max Poll Fish described in 1956 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Cichlidae-stub