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Alcolapia is a
genus of
small fishes in the
family Cichlidae.
Their native range is
restricted to
margins of Lake
Natron and Lake Magadi, as well as similar...
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Alcolapia grahami, the Lake
Magadi tilapia or Graham's cichlid, is a
vulnerable species of fish in the
family Cichlidae. It is
specialised to live in...
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Alcolapia alcalica, the
common natron tilapia or soda cichlid, is an
endangered species of fish in the
family Cichlidae. It is
endemic to the hypersaline...
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Alcolapia ndalalani, the narrow-mouthed
Natron tilapia, is a
species of
small fish in the
family Cichlidae. It is
endemic to the hypersaline, warm Lake...
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Alcolapia latilabris, the wide-lipped
Natron tilapia, is a
species of
small fish in the
family Cichlidae. It is
endemic to the hypersaline, warm Lake...
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distant from the "core"
Oreochromis as they are from
Alcolapia. A
potential solution is to
merge Alcolapia into Oreochromis, as done by
Catalog of Fishes....
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cracks to
produce large polygons. A
single species of fish, a
cichlid Alcolapia grahami,
inhabits the hot,
highly alkaline waters of this lake
basin and...
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regular breeding area. Two
endemic fish species, the
alkaline tilapias Alcolapia latilabris and A. ndalalani, also
thrive in the
waters at the
edges of...
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shrimp Artemia and the
copepod Paradiaptomus afric****) and fish (e.g.
Alcolapia), are also
found in many of the less
extreme soda lakes,
adapted to the...
- cormorants.
Despite the
tepid and
alkaline waters, a
diminutive fish,
Alcolapia grahami has
flourished after being introduced in the
early 1960s. The...
