Izinga Island
ee-ZEEN-gah EYE-land (approx.)
The atlas records 16 collection-point forms from Izinga Island, across 10 genera.
8.0560°S 30.8986°E
Izinga Island is a rocky island off Lake Tanganyika's Tanzanian shore, about 1 km west-north-west of Lyela, opposite the mainland at Lyela Village.
Where it is
Izinga Island is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its southern third (327 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Wampembe 0.4 mi north · Kamasire Bay 0.4 mi north · Lyela 0.8 mi east
Shore, third and distances are measured from the coordinates above against the lake’s mapped outline.
The water
Lake-wide measured chemistry of Lake Tanganyika — collection points share their lake's water; site-specific figures are shown only where the literature records them.
Nearest measured station: Mpulungu (south basin) (~82 km) — Temperature 24.5 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 662 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 11.9 m
This site
Surface temperature here
Across Mar–Nov, monthly means run 76 °F to 82 °F — coolest in Jul. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1551 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.
Temperature: ESA Climate Change Initiative, Lakes_cci v3.0 (Asfour et al. 2026; doi:10.5285/a56dba09df8a42ec9fba8b8c7a5e1f69). Chemistry on this page remains the lake's own.
The site
A photograph taken at a depth of 3 metres shows the underwater landscape at the island.
Each entry below is the population of that species recorded here — the form aquarists keep and breed as a distinct, provenance-labelled line. Crossing forms from different collection points is considered hybridisation in the hobby.