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The Nile, Biology of an Ancient River pp 127–141Cite as

Fish Fauna of the Nile

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Taken in its entirety, that is by including the fishes of Lakes Victoria, Kioga, Edward, George, Albert and Tana, the ichthyofauna of the Nile drainage basin is the second largest in Africa. (The Congo region, with 669 species according to Poll (1973), is the largest). This ‘extended Nile’ fauna comprises some 320 species (in 60 genera), of which approximately 62 percent are endemic.

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Greenwood, P.H. (1976). Fish Fauna of the Nile. In: Rzóska, J. (eds) The Nile, Biology of an Ancient River. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1563-9_18

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