Table 1.

List of described, valid, lacustrine cichlid species of Lake Tanganyika. For each of the 208 species the tribe assignment, the initial name upon description, and the reported type locality are provided. If no holotype has been assigned, the sampling localities of the syntypes are listed. Note that for the two species L. kungweensis and N. brichardi the species name has changed and therefore both names and references are listed. Only native and still valid species have been considered. Superscript notation:¹ Species we consider as ‘museum species’; ² Species we consider as ‘questionable species’; ³ Species with affinity to rivers, occurring in the lake and in the Lake Tanganyika basin; ⁴ Species not endemic to the Lake Tanganyika basin. LT = Lake Tanganyika; BUR = Burundi; DRC = Democratic Republic of Congo; TAN = Tanzania; ZAM = Zambia.