Esmeralda's climbing catfish
Astroblepus cyclopus (Humboldt, 1805)
Also calledVulkanmalle (dan) · šplhavka okrouhlooká (ces) · Preñadilla (spa)
First described in: Humboldt, F. H. A. von. 1805. Mémoire sur une nouvelle espèce de pimelode, jetée par les volcans du Royaume de Quito. In: Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland, Deuxième partie. Observations de Zoologie et d’Anatomie comparée (<Unspecified Agent>, ed.), : 21-25.
This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Astroblepus cyclopus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2342160.