Astroblepus vanceae
Species of fish
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Astroblepus vanceae is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Astroblepidae, the climbing catfishes.[2] This catfish is found in South America where it occurs in small, high altitude streams in the Andean Amazon basin of Peru.[1] This species attains a maximum standard length of 8 cm (3.1 in).[3]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Astroblepidae |
| Genus: | Astroblepus |
| Species: | A. vanceae |
| Binomial name | |
| Astroblepus vanceae (C. H. Eigenmann, 1913)[2] | |
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The specific name, vanceae, honors Miss Lola E. Vance (1884-1984), later Mrs. Jacob Lievense, who gave Eigenmann a small collection of fishes from Peru, which included the holotype of this species.[4]
