Creagrutus amoenus is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a characin, belonging to the family Stevardiidae.Vari, R.P., A.S. Harold and H. Ortega, 1995. Creagrutus kunturus, a new species from western Amazonian Peru and Ecuador (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 6(4):289-296.
This species reaches a length of . It is found in South America in eastern Ecuador and southeastern Colombia swimming in the foothill rivers of the Andes.
The fish's name comes from the "Latin for pleasant, charming or delightful, presumably referring to its color, with 'bright silvery white' axial band in life and six 'more or less clearly defined dark blotches'".
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