Creagrutus amoenus

Creagrutus amoenus
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Characiformes
Family:	Stevardiidae
Genus:	Creagrutus
Species:	C. amoenus
Binomial name
Creagrutus amoenus Fowler, 1943
Synonyms
Creagrutus boehlkei Géry, 1972

Creagrutus amoenus is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a characin, belonging to the family Stevardiidae. ^{[2] [1]}

This species reaches a length of 10.2 cm (4.0 in). ^[3] It is found in South America in eastern Ecuador and southeastern Colombia swimming in the foothill rivers of the Andes.^{[ citation needed ]}

The fish's name comes from the "Latin for pleasant, charming or delightful, presumably referring to its color, with 'bright silvery white' axial band in life and six 'more or less clearly defined dark blotches'". ^[4]

References

1. Anderson, Elizabeth; Arguello, Pablo (8 October 2014). "Creagrutus amoenus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . Archived from the original on 29 April 2025.
2. Vari, R.P., A.S. Harold and H. Ortega, 1995. Creagrutus kunturus, a new species from western Amazonian Peru and Ecuador (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 6(4):289-296.
3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Creagrutus amoenus". FishBase . February 2025 version.
4. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family STEVARDIIDAE Gill 1858 (Stevardiids)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 15 December 2025.