Rheocles sikorae

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Ravelomanana, T. |author2=Sparks, J.S. |date=2016 |title=Rheocles sikorae |volume=2016 |page=e.T19481A58300957 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T19481A58300957.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

| taxon = Rheocles sikorae

| authority = (Sauvage, 1891)

| synonyms = *Eleotris sikorae Sauvage, 1891

Atherina sikorae (Sauvage, 1891)

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Rheocles sikorae is a species of rainbowfish in the subfamily Bedotiinae, the Madagascar rainbowfishes. It is endemic to Madagascar where found in tropical rivers and streams.{{FishBase|Rheocles|sikorae|month=April|year=2019}} It can reach the maximum recorded length of {{convert|11.5|cm|in|abbr=on}}.

Distribution and status

Rheocles sikorae is native to Madagascar, where found in the Mangoro stream, high valley of the east coast of the island, and in the Manambola River near Anosibe.

At one point in time, this species was thought to be extinct, but since 1996 it has been collected from five forested stream localities near the town of Marolambo.

Taxonomy and name

Rheocles sikorae was described by Henri Émile Sauvage in 1891 as Eleotris sikorae with a type locality given as "Madagascar".{{Cof record|spid=14225|title=Eleotris sikorae|access-date=30 June 2019}} Sauvage honoured the Austrian explorer Franz Sikora (1863-1902), who collected the type.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/atheriniformes2/ | title = Order ATHERINIFORMES: Families BEDOTIIDAE, MELANOTAENIIDAE, PSEUDOMUGILIDAE, TELMATHERINIDAE, ISONIDAE, DENTATHERINIDAE and PHALLOSTETHIDAE | access-date= 30 June 2019 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style=amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 14 March 2019}}

References

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