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Bedotia alveyi, the Makira rainbowfish, is a species of Madagascar rainbowfish from rivers and streams in the Makira region of Madagascar where it occurs in the tributaries of the Antainambalana and Vohimaro rivers. [2]
The entire family of Bedotiidae is endemic to Madagascar. [1] Bedotiins occur exclusively in freshwater environments and are distributed in small to medium-sized forested rivers and streams, occasionally in swamps and marshes, spanning nearly the entire eastern slope of Madagascar (R. derhami is recorded from a westward draining Sofia River basin in the northeast of the island).
A 2004 study supported three major, more or less geographically distinct, clades of Bedotia, one comprising species with distributions ranging from mid- to southeastern Madagascar (B. madagascariensis, B. geayi, and B. tricolor, plus four undescribed species), another including species restricted to eastern drainages north of the Masoala ...
Bedotia albomarginata is a species of Madagascar rainbowfish from the Mananara and Reinana river basins in Madagascar. [2] It is threatened by habitat loss. [1] This species was described by John Sparks and Leila Rush in 2005 from types collected near the towns of Vondrozo and Vevembe from the Sahapindra River, which is a tributary of the Mananara River, in Fianarantsoa Province.
Bedotia masoala is a species of rainbowfish in the subfamily Bedotiinae. It is endemic to Madagascar. [2] Its natural habitat is rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss. This species was described in 2001 by John S. Sparks from a type locality of the Ankavanana River on the Masoala Peninsula in Antalaha District. [3]
Bedotia longianalis is a species of Madagascar rainbowfish endemic to Madagascar. [2] Its natural habitat is the lower reaches of rivers and its range extends from the Ifontsy to the Anove rivers and it is also found on Île Sainte-Marie, in north-eastern Madagascar. [1]
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It is endemic to Madagascar and can be found in the Manantenina River. [2] It is threatened by habitat loss. [1] This species was described by Melanie Stiassny nd Ian Harrison in 2000 from types collected from the Manantenina River on the south eastern boundary of the Marojejy National Park, [3] after which the species is named. [4]