- Animals
- ›Chordates
- ›Vertebrates
- ›Ray-finned Fishes
- ›Carps, Characins, Catfishes and Allies
- ›Catfishes
- ›Loricarioidei
- ›Naked Sucker-mouth Catfishes
- ›Astroblepus
Villeta climbing catfish
Astroblepus homodon
Astroblepus homodon is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Astroblepidae, the climbing catfishes. This catfish is found in South America where it is endemic to Colombia, where it is found in the Magdalena-Cauca rivers and Pacific slope river basins, occurring at altitudes between 480 and 2,000 metres (1,570 and 6,560 ft) in clear, fast flowing streams. This species has a maximum standard length of 8 cm (3.1 in).
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Astroblepus homodon in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 608701.