. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 35° NEW SPECIES OF TILAPIA FROM EAST AFRICA Pangani River Tilapia and Lake Jipe Tilapia; Lake Victoria and Belgian Congo species foreign to the Pangani system had been introduced into other ponds at Korogwe. Lake Jipe is connected with the Ruvu or Pangani River in wet seasons through a series of swamps. In 1951 the lake was about twelve miles long by one and-a-half miles wide, but was said to be silting up and spreading ; it was a shallow lake, only a few feet deep over much of its area, with large patches of water plants, Poiamogeton and Naj
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 35° NEW SPECIES OF TILAPIA FROM EAST AFRICA Pangani River Tilapia and Lake Jipe Tilapia; Lake Victoria and Belgian Congo species foreign to the Pangani system had been introduced into other ponds at Korogwe. Lake Jipe is connected with the Ruvu or Pangani River in wet seasons through a series of swamps. In 1951 the lake was about twelve miles long by one and-a-half miles wide, but was said to be silting up and spreading ; it was a shallow lake, only a few feet deep over much of its area, with large patches of water plants, Poiamogeton and Najas species, rising to the surface, and frequented by numerous water Text-fig. i. The Pangani River system, Tanganyika Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). London : BM(NH)
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