''Bedotia longianalis'' is a species of
Madagascar rainbowfish
Bedotiidae are a family of fish in the order Atheriniformes. They are closely related to the Australian rainbowfish family Melanotaeniidae, and were formerly placed in it as a subfamily, but are now considered a distinct family. They are commonl ...
endemic
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to
Madagascar
Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island country that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Lying off the southeastern coast of Africa, it is the world's List of islands by area, f ...
.
Its natural
habitat
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is the lower reaches of
river
A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...
s and its range extends from the
Ifontsy to the
Anove rivers and it is also found on
ÃŽle Sainte-Marie, in north-eastern Madagascar.
It was
described in 1914 by Jacques Pellegrin from a
type collected from a market in
Mahambo.
References
longianalis
Freshwater fish of Madagascar
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Fish described in 1914
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