Lake salmon
| Lake salmon | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Danionidae |
| Subfamily: | Chedrinae |
| Genus: | Opsaridium |
| Species: | O. microlepis |
| Binomial name | |
| Opsaridium microlepis (Günther, 1864) | |
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The lake salmon or mpasa (Opsaridium microlepis) is an African species of freshwater fish, endemic to Lake Malawi, in the family Danionidae found in Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are rivers and freshwater lakes.