Table 1 Freshwater fish families in the East African Great Lakes Victoria, Malawi and Tanganyika (according to refs. [1,16,17] and http://www.fishbase.org)
fish family | Lake Victoria | Lake Malawi | Lake Tanganyika |
|---|---|---|---|
Amphiliidae |  | √ | √ |
Anabantidae | √ |  | √ |
Anguillidae |  | √ |  |
Bagridae | √ | √ | √ |
Centrarchidae | √* |  |  |
Centropomidae | √* |  | √ |
Characidae | √ | √ | √ |
Cichlidae | √ | √ | √ |
Citharinidae |  |  | √ |
Clariidae | √ | √ | √ |
Clupeidae |  |  | √ |
Cyprinidae | √ | √ | √ |
Cyprinodontidae | √ | √ | √ |
Kneriidae |  |  | √ |
Malapteruridae |  |  | √ |
Mastacembalidae | √ | √ | √ |
Mochokidae | √ | √ | √ |
Mormyridae | √ | √ | √ |
Polypteridae |  |  | √ |
Protopteridae | √ | √ | √ |
Schilbeidae | √ |  | √ |
Tetraodontidae |  |  | √ |