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Q. The Cichlid species of Lake Victoria were driven to, or nearly to, extinction by the introduction of _________.

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Nile perch is a large predator fish, introduced in Lake Victoria of South Africa. It was endemic to the aquatic system because it begins to threaten the entire fresh water ecosystem by feeding on small herbivorous and detrivorous cichlid fish species of Lake victoria.