''Bedotia madagascariensis'' (zona) is a species of

fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...

in the family

Bedotiidae Bedotiinae are a subfamily of the rainbowfish family (biology), family Melanotaeniidae, commonly known as the Madagascar rainbowfish, Madagascan rainbowfish, or Malagasy rainbowfish due to their endemism to Madagascar. It includes two genus, gene ...

. It is

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 ...

, where found in rivers and lakes between the Ivoloina River and the

Manambolo Creek ''For the river with the same name, see Manambolo (disambiguation)'' Manambolo is a town and commune ( mg, kaominina) in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Maroantsetra, which is a part of Analanjirofo Region. The population of the commun ...

. It is commonly seen in the aquarium trade, where it often has been confused with the related '' B. geayi''.SeriouslyFish:
Bedotia madagascarensis.
' Retrieved 3 July 2014. It is threatened by

habitat loss Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) is the process by which a natural habitat becomes incapable of supporting its native species. The organisms that previously inhabited the site are displaced or dead, thereby ...

. It was described by Charles Tate Regan in 1903 with Madagascar given as the type locality, Regan deposited the type in the ''

Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève The Natural History Museum of Geneva (in French language, French: ') is a natural history museum in Geneva, Switzerland. Louis Jurine’s collections of Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Hemiptera are held by the museum. Other displays ...

'' and named the genus in honour of its director Maurice Bedot (1859-1927).

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madagascarensis Freshwater fish of Madagascar Fish described in 1903 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Atheriniformes-stub