''Grammatotria lemairii'' is a species of
cichlid
Cichlids are fish from the family Cichlidae in the order Cichliformes. Cichlids were traditionally classed in a suborder, the Labroidei, along with the wrasses ( Labridae), in the order Perciformes, but molecular studies have contradicted this ...
endemic
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to
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika () is an African Great Lake. It is the second-oldest freshwater lake in the world, the second-largest by volume, and the second-deepest, in all cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. It is the world's longest freshwater lake. ...
in
East Africa
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Due to the historical ...
where it prefers areas with sandy substrates. This species can reach a length of
TL. It is currently the only known member of its
genus
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. The species is occasionally kept as an
aquarium
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fish.
[Andersen, T. (2006]
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honours Lieutenant :nl:Charles Lemaire, Charles Lemaire (1863-1925) who was the leader of the Congo Free State Expedition, which collected Zoological specimen, specimens of fishes at Lake Tanganyika, including the
of ''G. lemairii''.