Creagrutus calai

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

Last updated December 17, 2025

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

Location

It is found in the western Meta River basin in South America.

Size

This species reaches a length of 6.6 cm (2.6 in).^[2]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Plutarco Cala Cala, of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, because of his contributions to the understanding of Colombian freshwater fishes.^[3]

References

↑ 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.
↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Creagrutus calai". FishBase . February 2025 version.
↑ 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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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[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 calai". FishBase . February 2025 version.

[ETYFish-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.

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