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Fish of the Andes — montane regional freshwater fish of South America. Pages in category "Fish of the Andes" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
The fauna of the Andes, a mountain range in South America, is large and diverse. As well as a huge variety of flora , the Andes contain many different animal species. With almost 1,000 species, of which roughly 2/3 are endemic to the region, the Andes are the most important region in the world for amphibians . [ 2 ]
The Andean catfish (Astroblepus ubidiai) is a species of freshwater fish in the family Astroblepidae. The Spanish name for the Andean catfish is preñadilla. It is endemic to the highlands of the Ecuadorian Andes where it lives in mountain streams in four different drainage basins in the Imbakucha watershed. It is a brownish-grey fish growing ...
Fish of the Andes (11 P) M. ... Páramo fauna (1 C, 73 P) Pages in category "Fauna of the Andes" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
Fish of the Andes (11 P) Freshwater fish of Argentina (104 P) B. Fish of Bolivia (125 P) Freshwater fish of Brazil (3 C, 155 P) C. Freshwater fish of Chile (30 P)
Four Orestias (possibly O. luteus) and two Trichomycterus catfish caught in Lake Titicaca, the center of Orestias richness. Orestias is restricted to freshwater habitats at an altitude of 2,800–4,600 m (9,200–15,100 ft) in the Andes of central and southern Peru, western Bolivia, and northeastern Chile. [2]
Galaxias platei is a ray-finned fish of the genus Galaxias.It is commonly known as tollo, puye, puyen, or puyen grande. [2]It is native to temperate rivers and streams in southern South America on both sides of the Andes, including central and southern Chile south of Valdivia, and Argentina south of the Limay River, along the Patagonian Andes of both countries to Tierra del Fuego, and to the ...
The Southern Andes in Argentina and Chile, south of Llullaillaco, ... (about 45% endemic), and almost 400 species of fish (about 1/3 endemic). ...