Fish species occurrence and composition in shallow (wetland) habitats of Northern Lake Victoria (Uganda)

Monic Nsega; John Balirwa

doi:10.15468/qof2qv

Fish species occurrence and composition in shallow (wetland) habitats of Northern Lake Victoria (Uganda)

Citation

Nsega M, Balirwa J (2019). Fish species occurrence and composition in shallow (wetland) habitats of Northern Lake Victoria (Uganda). Version 1.1. National Fisheries Resources Research Institute. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/qof2qv accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-11-03.

Description

This dataset presents occurrence records and composition of fish species collected in shallow habitats of different vegetation fringes in Lake Victoria, Uganda.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

Sampling was conducted on the Ugandan part of Lake Victoria, near Jinja. The sampling was from 1993 to 1996.

Sampling

Sampling was conducted parallel to the shoreline off each dominant vegetation type. For each habitat type, sampling was done within 20 m from the shore and beyond, between 20m and about 70 m away from the shoreline. Fish was captured using gillnets and basket traps set overnight. Complete details of sampling are available in Balirwa (1998).

Quality Control

All scientific names were validated using FishBase (Froese & Paully, 2018).

Method steps

Geo-referencing and coordinate conversions The coordinates associated with the dataset were retrieved from Balirwa (1998). These were transformed to decimal degrees using online coordinate conversion tools including canadensys (http://data.canadensys.net/tools/coordinates) and PGC Coordinate Converter (https://www.pgc.umn.edu/apps/convert/) of the University of Minnesota. The locations verified in Google Earth.
Confirming fish species names Species names were confirmed using FishBase (Froese & Paully, 2018). For the species that were allocated to the genus Barbus in the original survey data, the currently accepted nomenclature, Labeobarbus for the large hexaploid species was adopted (Van Ginneken et al., 2017; Vreven et al. 2016). All haplochromine cichlids are allocated to genus Haplochromis which is accepted in Fishbase.

Taxonomic Coverages

Astatoreochromis alluaudi
rank: species
Bagrus docmak
rank: species
Brycinus jacksonii
rank: species
Brycinus sadleri
rank: species
Clarias alluaudi
rank: species
Clarias gariepinus
rank: species
Clarias liocephalus
rank: species
Coptodon zillii
rank: species
Gnathonemus longibarbis
rank: species
Haplochromis
rank: genus
Haplochromis barbarae
rank: species
Haplochromis laparogramma
rank: species
Haplochromis lividus
rank: species
Haplochromis macrops
rank: species
Haplochromis nigricans
rank: species
Haplochromis nubilus
rank: species
Haplochromis nyanzae
rank: species
Hippopotamyrus grahami
rank: species
Labeobarbus altianalis
rank: species
Lates niloticus
rank: species
Mastacembelus frenatus
rank: species
Momyrus kannume
rank: species
Oreochromis esculentus
rank: species
Oreochromis leucostictus
rank: species
Oreochromis niloticus
rank: species
Oreochromis variabilis
rank: species
Protopterus aethiopicus
rank: species
Synodontis afrofischeri
rank: species
Synodontis victoriae
rank: species

Geographic Coverages

The study covered habitats in Northern Lake Victoria, Uganda

Bibliographic Citations

Balirwa, J.S. (1998) Lake Victoria Wetlands and the ecology of the Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus Linne. PhD Dissertation, Wageningen Agricultural University, Delft, the Netherlands. -
Froese, R. & Pauly D. (Eds). 2018. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, version (06/2017). http://www.fishbase.org -
Van Ginneken, M., Decru, E., Verheyen, E. and Snoeks, J. (2017). ‘Morphometry and DNA barcoding reveal cryptic diversity in the genus Enteromius (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from the Congo basin, Africa’. European Journal of Taxonomy. 310:1–32. -
Vreven, E.J.W.M.N., Musschoot, T., Snoeks, J. and Schliewen, U.K. (2016). ‘The African hexaploid Torini (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae): review of a tumultuous history’. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 177:231–305. -

Contacts

Monic Nsega
originator
position: Principal Research Technician
National Fisheries Resources Research Institute
Nile Crescent, Plot 39/45, Jinja Opposite the wagon ferry terminal
Jinja
343
UG
email: mnsega@yahoo.com

John Balirwa
originator
position: Director of Research
National Fisheries Resources Resources Research Institute
Nile Crescent, Plot 39/45, Jinja opposite the Wagon ferry terminal
Jinja
343
UG
email: jbalirwa@yahoo.com

Monic Nsega
metadata author
position: Principal Research Technician
National Fisheries Resources Research Institute
Nile Crescent, Plot 39/45, Jinja Opposite the wagon ferry terminal
Jinja
343
UG
email: mnsega@yahoo.com

Laban Musinguzi
point of contact
position: Research officer
National Fisheries Resources Research Institute
Nile Crescent, Plot 39/45, Jinja Opposite the wagon ferry terminal
Jinja
343
UG
email: labanmusinguzi@firi.go.ug
homepage: https://labanmusinguzi.com/
userId: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=m2Dzl1gAAAAJ&hl=en

Monic Nsega
administrative point of contact
position: Principal Research Technician
National Fisheries Resources Research Institute
Nile Crescent, Plot 39/45, Jinja Opposite the wagon ferry terminal
Jinja
343
UG
email: mnsega@yahoo.com

Laban Musinguzi
administrative point of contact
position: Research officer
National Fisheries Resources Research Institute
Nile Crescent, Plot 39/45, Jinja Opposite the wagon ferry terminal
Jinja
343
UG
email: labanmusinguzi@firi.go.ug
homepage: https://labanmusinguzi.com/
userId: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=m2Dzl1gAAAAJ&hl=en

Vianny Natugonza
administrative point of contact
position: Research Officer
National Fisheries Resources Research Institute
Nile Crescent, Plot 39/45, Jinja Opposite the wagon ferry terminal
Jinja
343
UG
email: viannynatugonza@firi.go.ug
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=KewxfP8AAAAJ&hl=en