New Fish Species Found in Lake Victoria Two new species of
cichlid fish have been found in Lake Victoria. One of the
species has been names after Tijs Goldschmidt, the author of
Darwin’s Dreampond. The book explains the extinction of hundreds
of cichlid species due to the Nile perch and other human related
environmental changes during the 1980s. Twenty five years after
the extinction of the cichlid species in Lake Victoria, two new
species have been found in that same location. The species have
been names Haplochromis argens and H. goldschmidti. The cichlid
species have recovered in the "Nile perch desert", some of them
became even more abundant than in the past, but the former
common H. "argens" is still extremely rare. The status of H.
"dusky-argens" is unknown because it was only caught in the
remote Emin Pasha Gulf. Research on the successfully resurgent
species shows they were able to adapt morphologically to new
environmental conditions. For instance, their body shape changed
so that burst swimming to e