The Tanganyika lates (''Lates angustifrons'')is a species of
lates perch
The Latidae, known as the lates perches, are a family of perch-like fish found in Africa, Asia, and the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. Including about 13 species, the family, previously classified subfamily Latinae in family Centropomidae, wa ...
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 elsew ...
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. ...
. It is a widespread predator on other fishes. This species can reach a length of
SL and the greatest recorded weight is . This species is important
commercially
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and is also popular as a
game fish
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. It is threatened by the pressures that these activities put upon the population.
Despite its common name, it is not the only lates in Tanganyika. The three other species in this lake are the
bigeye lates (''L. mariae''),
forktail lates (''L. microlepis'') and
sleek lates (''L. stappersii'').
References
Lates
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Fish described in 1906
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