Astroblepus ubidiai
Pellegrin, 1931
Synonyms
Cyclopium ubidiai
bagre
preñadilla
bagre
preñadilla
critical endangered
Length (total)
approx. 15 cm
Standard length (documented)
90.0 mm
Recommended tank size
100 cm
Lago San Pablo bei Otavalo (endemic)
Imbabura
Ecuador
[ 0.210,-78.226 ]
High above sea level
~2600 m
Locality
in lakes
Nutrition (mostly): insect-eater
Eats plants
not known
unknown
I / 6 rays
13 soft rays
I / 6 rays
9 soft rays
4 soft rays
13 soft rays
I / 6 rays
9 soft rays
4 soft rays
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. 315
- Pellegrin, J., 1931 "Description d'un Poisson nouveau de l'Equateur appartenant à la famille des Loricariidés" (Revue Suisse de Zoologie, T. 58, P. 114)
- Vélez-Espino, L.A. & Fox, M.G., 2005 "Demographic and environmental influences on life-history traits of isolated populations of the Andean catfish Astroblepus ubidiai" (Environmental Biology of Fishes, Vol. 72 No. 2, P. 189)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 67)
- Barriga, R., 2011 "Lista de peces de agua dulce e intermareales del Ecuador" (Revista Politécnica, Vol. 30 No. 3, P. 112)
- 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"
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