Synonyms
Cyclopium humboldtii
Esmeralda's Climbing Catfish
Pimelodus cyclopum
Preñadilla (ECU)
Stygogenes humboldtii
Esmeralda's Climbing Catfish
Pimelodus cyclopum
Preñadilla (ECU)
Stygogenes humboldtii
least concern
Length (total)
approx. 6 cm
Standard length (documented)
49.0 mm
Temperature
18 - 25 °C
pH
6.5 - 7.2
Locality
in a cave
Type of water
Clear water
beetle (Coleoptera) (larvae), diptera (Diptera) (larvae), Trichoptera (Trichoptera) (larvae), dragon-fly (Odonata) (larvae), Hundertfüßer (Chilopoda), millipede (Diplopoda), Locusts (Orthoptera), molluscs (Mollusca), Webspinnen (Aranae), ants (Formicidae), leech (Hirudinea), beetle (Coleoptera), cancer (Crustacea), annelids (Annelida), seed
Eats plants
not known
unknown
 
present
6 soft rays
13 soft rays
7 soft rays
8 soft rays
6 soft rays
6 soft rays
13 soft rays
7 soft rays
8 soft rays
6 soft rays
Sympatric with
Cetopsorhamdia boquillae
Microglanis berbixae
Trichomycterus caliensis
Astyanax aurocaudatus
Poecilia caucana
Microglanis berbixae
Trichomycterus caliensis
Astyanax aurocaudatus
Poecilia caucana
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
- Humbold, A.von, 1805 "Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland, Deuxième partie. Observ de Zool et d'Anat comp. Paris. v. 1, pp 17-20, Plate 7."
- Swainson, W., 1839 "On the natural history and classification of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals"
- Günther, Dr. Albert, 1864 "Siluridae" (Catalogue of the Physostomi in the Collection of the British Museum, P. 223)
- Román-Valencia, C., 2001 "Ecología trófica y reproductiva de Trichomycterus caliense y Astroblepus cyclopus (Pisces: Siluriformes) en el río Quindio, Alto Cauca, Colombia" (Revista de Biología Tropical, Vol. 49 No. 2)
- Nico, L., 2001 "Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859): contributions to knowledge of new world fishes" (Alexander von Humboldt: Homenaje al Bicentenario de su llegada a tierras Venezolanas (16 de julio-1799 al 26 de novienbre-1800), P. 142)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 64)
- Barriga, R., 2011 "Lista de peces de agua dulce e intermareales del Ecuador" (Revista Politécnica, Vol. 30 No. 3, P. 111)
- Spadella, M.A.; Oliveira, C.; Ortega, H.; Quagio-Grassiotto, I. & Burns, J.R., 2012 "Male and female reproductive morphology in the inseminating genus Astroblepus (Ostariophysi: Siluriformes: Astroblepidae)" (Zoologischer Anzeiger, Vol. 251 No. 1, P. 2)
- Ardila Rodríguez, C.A., 2015 "Cinco nuevas especies de peces astroböépidos para los andes colombianos" (abstract) (Revista de la Asociación Colombiana de Ciencias Biológicas, No. 27, P. 133)
- 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"
- Niemiller, M.L.; Zigler, K.S.; Hart, P.B.; Kuhajda, P.R.; Armbruster, J.W.; Ayala, B.N. & Engel, A.S., 2016 "First definitive record of a stygobiotic fish (Percopsiformes, Amblyopsidae, Typhlichthys) from the Appalachians karst region in the eastern United States" (Subterranean Biology, Vol. 20 No. 1, P. 9)
- 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 - Species deleted from the Colombian continental ichthyofauna" (ZooKeys, Vol. 708, P. 16)
- PCF
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