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Diagnostic Description

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A series of dark blotches arrayed along the lateral midline. Low vertebral count 34 including the terminal, hypural-bearing half centrum. Gut extremely short, only about 1/3 of body length (Ref. 39866).
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Morphology

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Dorsal spines (total): 6; Dorsal soft rays (total): 12 - 13; Analsoft rays: 17; Vertebrae: 34
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Trophic Strategy

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Gut extremely short; intestines contain partially disarticulated insects, remains of both aquatic (larvae) and terrrestrial insects, suggesting that it is probaably essentially insectivorous, opportunistically feeding on both autochthonous and allochthonous sources (Ref. 39866).
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Bedotia marojejy

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Bedotia marojejy is a freshwater species of fish in the Bedotiidae family. 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]

References

  1. ^ a b Ravelomanana, T. (2016). "Bedotia marojejy". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T44465A58306140. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T44465A58306140.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Bedotia marojejy" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
  3. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Bedotia marojejy". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  4. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (14 March 2019). "Order ATHERINIFORMES: Families BEDOTIIDAE, MELANOTAENIIDAE, PSEUDOMUGILIDAE, TELMATHERINIDAE, ISONIDAE, DENTATHERINIDAE and PHALLOSTETHIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
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Bedotia marojejy: Brief Summary

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Bedotia marojejy is a freshwater species of fish in the Bedotiidae family. It is endemic to Madagascar and can be found in the Manantenina River. It is threatened by habitat loss. 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, after which the species is named.

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