Creagrutus barrigai

Creagrutus barrigai
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Characiformes
Family:	Stevardiidae
Genus:	Creagrutus
Species:	C. barrigai
Binomial name
Creagrutus barrigai Vari & Harold, 2001

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

Location

It is found in the western Amazon River basin in northeastern Ecuador, northeastern Peru, and western Brazil.

Size

This species reaches a length of 5.3 cm (2.1 in). ^[2]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Dr Ramiro E Barriga Salazar, of the Universidad Politecnica in Quito, Ecuador, because of his many contributions to the knowledge of the freshwater fishes of Ecuador. ^[3]

References

1. Vari, R.P. and A.S. Harold, 2001. Phylogenetic study of the Neotropical fish genera Creagrutus Günther and Piabina Reinhardt (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes), with a revision of the Cis-Andean species. Smith. Cont. Zool. 613:1-239.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Creagrutus barrigai". FishBase . February 2025 version.
3. 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.

External links

• Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). "Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery". Scientific Data. 10 (1). Retrieved 16 December 2025.
• National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution: image