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IUCN VU · Vulnerable
lake salmon
Opsaridium microlepis
The lake salmon or mpasa (Opsaridium microlepis) is an African species of freshwater fish, endemic to Lake Malawi, in the Cyprinidae family found in Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are rivers and freshwater lakes.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 107733.