Crenicichla scottii

Crenicichla scottii is a species of cichlid native to South America. It is found in the middle and lower parts of the Uruguay River drainage in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. This species reaches a length of 16.9 cm (6.7 in).^[1]

Crenicichla scottii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cichliformes
Family:	Cichlidae
Genus:	Crenicichla
Species:	C. scottii
Binomial name
Crenicichla scottii C. H. Eigenmann, 1907

The fish is named in honor of vertebrate paleontologist William Berryman Scott (1858-1947) of Princeton University, who collected the type specimen.^[2]