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Paretroplus menarambo
is a freshwater fish endemic to Madagascar and epitomizes captive breeding efforts
to save threatened Malagasy fish. The last reports of this species in the wild
were in the late 1990s and it is now listed as Extinct in the Wild. However, breeding
populations are maintained in captivity thanks to animals collected in 1993 and
shipped back to Old World Exotic Fish in Homestead, Florida, USA. The main causes
for the loss of this species were deforestation, which had a detrimental effect
on the species freshwater habitat, introduced alien species, and overfishing.
Photo © Paul Loiselle.