Bedotia madagascariensis

Bedotia madagascariensis, known locally as zona, is a small ray-finned freshwater fish in the family Bedotiidae, all of whose members are endemic to Madagascar. It lives in rivers and lakes of the island between the Ivoloina River and the Manambolo Creek. The English ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan described the species in 1903, with Madagascar as the type locality, and deposited the type specimen in the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève. Regan erected a new genus for it and named that genus Bedotia in honour of Maurice Bedot, the museum director from 1859 to 1927. The species is threatened by loss of its habitat. It is seen in the aquarium trade, where it is often confused with the related Bedotia geayi.