A COLLECTION OF FISHES FROM THE ASWA RIVER DRAINAGE SYSTEM. UGANDA
作者:
P. H. GREENWOOD,
期刊:
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
(WILEY Available online 1963)
卷期:
Volume 140,
issue 1
页码: 61-74
ISSN:0370-2774
年代: 1963
DOI:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1963.tb01854.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
The Aswa river, a major tributary of the Nile, has its origins near Lake Kyoga, from which it is separated by a low watershed. The fishes described are the first to be collected from the Aswa. Two surprising features of the fish fauna are an endemicSynadontisspecies and an endemic and phyletically isolated species ofHaplochromis.Despite the presence of several Nilotic species absent from the Kyoga‐Victoria systems, the overall relationship of the Aswa species is with Lakes Victoria and Kyoga. It is suggested that the Aswa was once an affluent of Lake Kyog
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