''Bedotia longianalis'' 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 ...

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

. Its natural

habitat In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species habitat can be seen as the physical ...

is the lower reaches of

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

s and its range extends from the Ifontsy to the Anove and it is also found on

Île Sainte-Marie Nosy Boraha , previously known as Sainte-Marie, main town Ambodifotatra, is an island off the east coast of Madagascar. The island forms an administrative district within Analanjirofo Region, and covers an area of 222 km2. It has a popula ...

, in north-eastern Madagascar. It was described in 1914 by Jacques Pellegrin from a type collected from a market in

Mahambo Mahambo is a town and commune ( mg, kaominina) in Madagascar. It belongs to the Districts of Madagascar, district of Fenerive Est District, Fenerive Est, which is a part of Analanjirofo Region. The population of the commune was estimated to be app ...

References

longianalis Freshwater fish of Madagascar Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Fish described in 1914 {{Atheriniformes-stub