Karilani Island
kah-ree-LAH-nee EYE-land (approx.)
Also traded as “Karilani Island (Kushaganaza)”
The atlas records 27 collection-point forms from Karilani Island, across 13 genera.
6.0207°S 29.7423°E
Karilani Island is a small, uninhabited island off Lake Tanganyika's Tanzanian shore, under 1 km south-west of Bulu Point.
Where it is
Karilani Island is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its central third (186 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Bilinge Bay 0.8 mi south · Katumbi Point 1.4 mi north-east · Pasagulu Point 1.5 mi south-west
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: Kigoma (central, east shore) (~127 km) — Temperature 25.7 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 654 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 12.8 m
This site
Surface temperature here
Across May–Oct, monthly means run 78 °F to 80 °F — coolest in Aug. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (980 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
The island sits in shallow water close to Bulu Point, and the pair is named together in site captions as a popular ground for ornamental fish collectors. Karilani Village, on the mainland shore, appears in the background of several site photographs alongside 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.