Creagrutus britskii

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

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

Location

It is found in the upper Tocantins River basin in South America.

Size

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

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Brazilian ichthyologist Heraldo A. Britski, of the Universidade de São Paulo, because of his many contributions to the understanding of South American freshwater fishes. ^[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 britskii". 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