Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania

Segunga (north)

seh-GOON-gah NORTH (approx.)

The atlas records 2 collection-point forms from Segunga (north), across 2 genera.

5.5603°S 29.8438°E

Segunga (north) is the collection label for the northern side of Segunga, a village on Tanzania's Lake Tanganyika shore; tanganyika.si maps Segunga as a single point.

Where it is

Segunga (north) is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its central third (154 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Segunga Bay 0.5 mi north-west · Ifala 4.1 mi north-west · Kungwe Point 5 mi south

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.

Temperature77–80.6 °F25–27 °C
pH8.6–9.2alkaline
Hardnesshard · 600–690 µS/cm

Nearest measured station: Kigoma (central, east shore) (~79 km) — Temperature 25.7 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 654 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 12.8 m

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 (900 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

76°78°80°82°Jan: too few clear satellite days (2)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (4)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (4)–MApr: too few clear satellite days (4)–AMay: 80 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 52 clear satellite daysMJun: 79 °F mean (78 °F–80 °F), 178 clear satellite daysJJul: 78 °F mean (77 °F–79 °F), 270 clear satellite daysJAug: 78 °F mean (76 °F–79 °F), 231 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 117 clear satellite daysSOct: 79 °F mean (78 °F–80 °F), 35 clear satellite daysONov: too few clear satellite days (3)–NDec: too few clear satellite days (0)–D
Surface temperature by month near Segunga (north) — dot = mean, bar = typical range (10th–90th percentile), “–” = too cloudy to measure.

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.

Sources
  1. tanganyika.si — Segunga, Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania: location page and photo gallery

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.

Gnathochromis (1)

Tropheus (1)

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