 The Ripon barbel does not occur there, and the taxon was thus thought to refer to "Labeobarbus intermedius".But the Amala is actually a tributary of the Mara River, where "L. altianalis" is found, and "L. procatopus" is thus a junior synonym of it.The Ripon barbel inhabits Lake Victoria and its drainage basin and surrounding areas in the East African Rift, including Lake Edward, George, Kyoga and Kivu, and the Ruzizi River down to its delta (though not adjacent Lake Tanganyika) and the upper and middle Kagera River.