Mboko Island
m-BOH-koh EYE-land (approx.)
The atlas records 9 collection-point forms from Mboko Island, across 9 genera.
3.7690°S 29.1183°E
Mboko Island is an island off Lake Tanganyika's DR Congo shore, under 1 km north-west of Kifumbwe Island.
Where it is
Mboko Island is on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its northern third (30 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Mboko 1.6 mi south-west · Buko 11 mi south · Cape Munene 11 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: North basin (Bujumbura / Uvira) (~31 km) — Temperature 25.8 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 659 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 8.7 m
Surface temperature here
Across 10 of 12 months, monthly means run 78 °F to 81 °F — coolest in Aug. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (522 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 two islands are also known together as the Mboko Islands.
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.