Sleek lates
| Sleek lates | |
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| Scientific classification   | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Class: | Actinopterygii | 
| Order: | Carangiformes | 
| Suborder: | Centropomoidei | 
| Family: | Latidae | 
| Genus: | Lates | 
| Species: | L. stappersii | 
| Binomial name | |
| Lates stappersii (Boulenger, 1914) | |
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The sleek lates (Lates stappersi) is a species of lates perch endemic to Lake Tanganyika. It is locally known as Mikebuka (Tanzania) or Mukeke (Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi). This species can reach a length of 45 centimetres (18 in) SL. It is very important to local commercial fisheries.[2]
References
- ^ Ntakimazi, G. (2006). "Lates stappersii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006: e.T60839A12417072. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T60839A12417072.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Lates stappersii". FishBase. December 2013 version.
