Kitumba
kee-TOOM-bah (approx.)
The atlas records 12 collection-point forms from Kitumba, across 7 genera.
6.8239°S 29.6263°E
Kitumba is a locality on the Democratic Republic of Congo's Lake Tanganyika shore, about 2 km east-south-east of Kyeso.
Where it is
Kitumba is on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its central third (242 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Kyeso 0.9 mi north-west · Milima 5.1 mi north · Malasa Island 8.7 mi north
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) (~216 km) — Temperature 25.7 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 654 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 12.8 m
Surface temperature here
Across Apr–Oct, monthly means run 77 °F to 80 °F — coolest in Aug. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1010 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.
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.