Field and DNA-barcode based surveys reveal evidence of rare endemic fishes in the Rufiji River Basin

• Jackson L. Saiperaki ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jacksonlendoya89@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6396-8350

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• Silvia F. Materu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia F. Materu, Prisila A. Mkenda, Elly J. Ligate, Cyrus Rumisha

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

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• Prisila A. Mkenda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia F. Materu, Prisila A. Mkenda, Elly J. Ligate, Cyrus Rumisha

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

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• Elly J. Ligate ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia F. Materu, Prisila A. Mkenda, Elly J. Ligate, Cyrus Rumisha

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

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• Cyrus Rumisha

  Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia F. Materu, Prisila A. Mkenda, Elly J. Ligate, Cyrus Rumisha

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal, Aquaculture and Range Sciences, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

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