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Gar Characin

Ctenolucius hujeta

Classification

Ctenolucius hujeta, the silver gar, rocket gar, hujeta gar and freshwater barracuda, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ctenoluciidae, the pike-characins. This fish is found in Panama and northern South America. Taxonomy Ctenolucius hujeta was first formally described as Xiphostoma hujeta by the French zoologist Achille Valenciennes in Volume 22 of Histoire naturelle des poissons, coauthored with Georges Cuvier, which was published in 1850.

Distribution

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