| Caquetaia myersi | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cichliformes |
| Family: | Cichlidae |
| Genus: | Caquetaia |
| Species: | C. myersi |
| Binomial name | |
| Caquetaia myersi (L. P. Schultz, 1944) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Caquetaia myersi is a species of fish, a large predatory cichlid, which is endemic to the basin of the Amazon River, specifically the Putumayo and Napo rivers of Ecuador and Colombia. The specific name honours the American ichthyologist George S. Myers (1905-1985) of Stanford University, who first noticed that this was a different species of fish but did not formally describe it. The fish is a protrusible-mouthed predator. The juveniles are omnivorous but the large adults are carnivorous.
References
- ^ Arguello, P. & Sanchez-Duarte, P. (2016). "Caquetaia myersi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T49830402A66406270. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T49830402A66406270.en.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Caquetaia myersi". FishBase. June 2018 version.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily CICHLINAE (a-c)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- Borstein, Rick (11 August 2011). "Caquetaia myersi". www.gcca.net. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Caquetaia myersi | |
| Petenia myersi | |
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