Astroblepus chotae
Regan, 1904
according to the origin Chota-Valley
Synonyms
Arges chotae
babosa (COL)
baboso (COL)
bagrecito (ECU)
Chota Climbing Catfish
jabonero (VEN)
jabonoso (VEN)
negro (COL)
preñadilla (ECU)
babosa (COL)
baboso (COL)
bagrecito (ECU)
Chota Climbing Catfish
jabonero (VEN)
jabonoso (VEN)
negro (COL)
preñadilla (ECU)
Length (total)
approx. 10 cm
Recommended tank size
60 cm
Carchi, Imbabura, Norte de Santader, Zulía, Antioquia, Boyacá, Quindío, Risaralda, Santander, Tolima, Cauca
Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela
río Mira | río Cayapas ⇒ Pacific ↓ río Nechí → río Cauca ⇒ río Magdalena | ( río La Grita → río Guarumito ⇒ río Zulia ) → río Catatumbo → lago de Maracaibo ⇒ Caribic ↓
˜[ 0.448,-77.984 ]
Eats plants
not known
unknown
long
slightly incised / concave, pointed
short filament upper
short filament lower
slightly convex
short filament
slightly incised / concave, pointed
short filament upper
short filament lower
slightly convex
short filament
not known
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 313
- Regan, C.T., 1903 "Fishes of familiy Loricariidae - Arges chotae, sp. n." (Transaction of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. 17 No. 6, P. 313)
- Jiménez-Segura L.F.; Álvarez, J.; Ochoa, L.E.; Loaiza, A.; Londoño, J.P.; Restrepo, D.; Aguirre, K.; Hernández, A. ; Correa, J.D. & Jaramillo-Villa, U., 2014 "Guía Ilustrada Peces Cañon del río Porce, Antioquia"
- Ardila Rodríguez, C.A., 2015 "Astroblepus verai sp. nov - A. pradai A. curitiensis y A. onzagaensis Cuatro nuevas especies del departamento de Santander - Colombia"
- Jiménez-Prado, P.; Aguirre, W.; Laaz-Moncayo, E.; Navarrete-Amaya, R.; Nugra-Salazar, F.; Rebolledo-Monsalve, E.; Zárate-Hugo, E.; Torres-Noboa, A. & Valdiviezo-Rivera, J., 2015 "Guia de peces para aguas continentales en la vertiente occidental del Ecuador"
- Nugra, F.; Aguirre, W. & Zárate, 2015 "Peces de los ríos Vinces y Abras de Mantequilla" (Sistemas Hidrográficos de la Provincia de los Ríos, Ecuador, Vol. 674, P. 1)
- DoNascimiento, C.; Herrera-Callazos, E.E.; Herrera-R., G.A.; Ortega-Lara, A.; Villa-Navarro, F.A.; Oviedo, J.S.U. & Maldonado-Ocampo, J.A., 2017 "Checklist of the freshwater fishes of Colombia: a Darwin Core alternative to the updating problem" (ZooKeys, Vol. 708, P. 74)
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C. Tate Regan (1904) (PD)
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