Animalia > Chordata > Clupeiformes > Clupeidae > Limnothrissa > Limnothrissa miodon

Limnothrissa miodon (Stapper's sprat; Lake Tanganyika sardine; Kapenta)

Synonyms: Limnothrissa stappersii; Microthrissa stappersii; Pellonula miodon
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Wikipedia Abstract

The Lake Tanganyika sardine (Limnothrissa miodon) is a species of freshwater fish in the Clupeidae family which was endemic to Lake Tanganyika but which has now been introduced to other lakes in Africa as a food source. It is monotypic within the genus Limnothrissa. It and the Lake Tanganyika sprat are known collectively as kapenta.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Limnodromous

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Carassius carassius (Crucian carp)1

Predators

Hydrocynus vittatus (Tigerfish)[3]
Lates stappersii (Sleek lates)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Kapentagyrus limnotrissae[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 2Marshall, B.E. (1980) Aspects of the ecology of the crustacean zooplankton in the Sanyati Basin, Lake Kariba. Kariba, Zimbabwe, Department of National Parks and Wild Life Management , 7pp. (Lake Kariba Fisheries Research Institute Project Report,35)
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Sarah Close and Catherine O’Reilly, (2005): Nutrient dynamics of Lake Tanganyika University of Arizona
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0