Review Article
The Impact of the Geologic History and Paleoclimate on the Diversification of East African Cichlids
Table 1
Characteristics of the three great East African Lakes and their cichlid lineages.
| | Lake | Lake | Lake Victoria | | Tanganyika | Malawi |
| Maximum water depth (m) [54] | 1470 | 700 | 79 | Average water depth (m) [54] | 580 | 264 | 40 | Anoxic hypolimnion [54] | 50–240 | 250 | None | Surface area (km2) [54] | 32,600 | 29,500 | 68,800 | Approximate formation of lake [7, 9, 10, 55–57] | 9–12 Ma | >8.6 Ma | >0.4–1.6 Ma | Approximate number of species [58] | ~250 | ~700 | ~700 | Number of cichlids tribes [28, 59, 60] | 12–16 | 2 | 2 |
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References in the first column refer to the table’s sources.
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