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.[2] 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.[3] The fish is a protrusible-mouthed predator.[4] The juveniles are omnivorous but the large adults are carnivorous.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cichliformes |
| Family: | Cichlidae |
| Genus: | Caquetaia |
| Species: | C. myersi
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| Caquetaia myersi (L. P. Schultz, 1944)
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References
edit- ^ a b 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.
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