The sleek lates (''Lates stappersi'') 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 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 locally known as ''Mikebuka'' (Tanzania) or ''Mukeke'' (Democratic Republic of the Congo). This species can reach a length of
SL. It is very important to local
commercial fisheries.
References
Lates
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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