Andean catfish
| Andean catfish | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Astroblepidae |
| Genus: | Astroblepus |
| Species: | A. ubidiai
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| Binomial name | |
| Astroblepus ubidiai (Pellegrin, 1931)
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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The Andean catfish (Astroblepus ubidiai) is a
critically endangered
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Description
The Andean catfish's natural
caves and inland karsts of four different drainage basins within the Imbakucha watershed. It is brownish gray in colour and has no scales; large adults can grow up to 150 mm. Like all other catfishes, it has barbels around the mouth which contain taste buds that help the animal find food at night. Its diet consists of other fish, frogs, snails, algae
, and other aquatic organisms.
Status
The species is
large mouth bass in Imbakucha Lake have resulted in the segregation of its six subpopulations and limit their probabilities of escape to other refugia when the environment deteriorates.[1]
Sources
- Velez-Espino, L.A. (2004). "Threatened fishes of the world: Astroblepus ubidiai (Pellegrin, 1931) (Astroblepidae)". Environmental Biology of Fishes. 71 (3). Kluwer Academic Publishers: 296. S2CID 36552486.
- Arguello, P.; Jimenez-Prado, P. (2016). "Astroblepus ubidiai". . Retrieved 13 November 2021.
References
- ^ . Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- Fishbase. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
External links
- "Andean Catfish (Astroblepus ubidiai)". Animal Planet. Archived from the original on 2011-02-18.