Astroblepus mancoi

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Velasquez Quispe, M. |author2=Hidalgo del Aguila, M. |author3=Chocano, L. |date=2016 |title=Astroblepus mancoi |volume=2016 |page=e.T49830110A53817898 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T49830110A53817898.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

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| taxon = Astroblepus mancoi

| authority = (C. H. Eigenmann, 1928)

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Astroblepus mancoi is a species of catfish of the family Astroblepidae. It can be found on the Ucayali River on Peru.{{cite web|title=Astroblepus mancoi|url=http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=49692&genusname=Astroblepus&speciesname=mancoi|publisher=FishBase|accessdate=3 July 2014}}{{cite web|title=Astroblepus mancoi|url=http://aquatab.net/system/astroblepus-mancoi/|publisher=Aqua Tab|accessdate=3 July 2014}}

Named in honor of Inca governor and founder Ayar Manco, also known as Manco Cápac, “the Moses of the Peruvians, who led the exodus from Tampu-tocco to Cuzco about 1100 A.D.”{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/siluriformes2/ | title = Order SILURIFORMES: Families CALLICHTHYIDAE, SCOLOPLACIDAE and ASTROBLEPIDAE | access-date= 10 March 2021 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}

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Bibliography

  • Eschmeyer, William N., ed. 1998. Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, num. 1, vol. 1–3. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California, United States. 2905. {{ISBN|0-940228-47-5}}.

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Category:Astroblepus

Category:Fish described in 1928

Category:Taxa named by Carl H. Eigenmann

Category:Freshwater fish of Peru

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