These included Lake Victoria, two satellite lakes on the northwestern shore of Lake Victoria, and seven lakes from the Kyoga lakes system, located approximately 150 km north of Lake Victoria.
A 12-foot-long model of the Great Lakes allows visitors to float toy boats from Lake Superior to the St . Lawrence Seawayvia the lakes' system of locks.
An onset of the Malili Lakes system formation in the early Pleistocene c. 1 2 Mya is plausible (Robert Hall, pers. comm).
The Matano fault gave rise to the rift lake Matano, and probably also initiated the formation of the remaining lakes of the Malili Lakes system.
Phylogenetic analyses suggest that the two lineages of Telmatherina radiating in the hydrological head of the lakes system, ancient graben-lake Matano, form an ancient monophyletic group that was later compromised by introgressive hybridization from stream populations [ 17].
The Malili Lakes system (Matano, Mahalona, and Towuti) – a hydrological chain of three main lakes interconnected by rivers – is the main habitat of the sailfin silversides radiation (Atherinomorpha: Telmatherinidae).
The Malili Lakes system in central Sulawesi (Indonesia) is a hotspot of freshwater biodiversity in the Wallacea, characterized by endemic species flocks like the sailfin silversides (Teleostei: Atherinomorpha: Telmatherinidae) radiation.
Within the Telmatherinidae, Marosatherina ladigesi from the Maros karst (southwest Sulawesi) is basal to the clade including Kalyptatherina helodes (Batanta and Misool) plus the sailfin silversides from the Malili Lakes system in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia (node 14; mean age range: 8.5-28.9 My).
Sulawesi's Telmatherinidae have most likely originated in the Sahul Shelf area, have possibly reached the island by both, marine dispersal and island/terrane-rafting, and have colonized the Malili Lakes system from rivers.
We want to understand the similarities and differences between the two lake systems.
