Africa: endemic to Lake Tanganyika, only known from the type locality: eastern shore of the Ubwari Peninsula, Lake Tanganyika, DR Congo (Ref. 47263, 75075, 78218)
Definition: length of a fish measured from the tip of the snout to the posterior end of the last vertebra or to the posterior end of the midlateral portion of the hypural plate. Simply put, this measurement excludes the length of the caudal fin