''Bedotia albomarginata'' is a species of

Madagascar rainbowfish Bedotiinae are a subfamily of the rainbowfish family Melanotaeniidae, commonly known as the Madagascar rainbowfish, Madagascan rainbowfish, or Malagasy rainbowfish due to their endemism to Madagascar. It includes two genera, ''Bedotia'' and ''Rhe ...

from the Mananara and Reinana river basins in

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. It is threatened by

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. This species was described by John Sparks and Leila Rush in 2005 from

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collected near the towns of

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and Vevembe from the Sahapindra River, which is a

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of the Mananara River, in

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References

Sources

* Sparks, J.S., and L.M.R. Rush (2005). ''A new rainbowfish (Teleostei: Melanotaenioidei: Bedotiidae) from the southeastern highlands of Madagascar, with comments on the biogeography of Bedotia.'' Zootaxa 1051: 39–54. * Loiselle, P. & participants of the CBSG/ANGAP CAMP "Faune de Madagascar" workshop 2004.
Bedotia sp. nov. 'Vevembe'

2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Downloaded on 4 August 2007. albomarginata Freshwater fish of Madagascar Taxa named by John Stephen Sparks Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Fish described in 2005 {{Atheriniformes-stub