未予評估（IUCN 3.1）
科學分類
界： 動物界 Animalia
門： 脊索動物門 Chordata
綱： 輻鰭魚綱 Actinopterygii
目： 鱸形目 Perciformes
亞目： 隆頭魚亞目 Labroidei
科： 慈鯛科 Cichlidae
屬： 麗魚屬 Cichla
種： 金目麗魚 C. temensis
二名法
Cichla temensis
異名
Cichla atabapensis
Cichla tucunare
Cychla trifasciata
地點:委內瑞拉
說明：
該Ventuari河是在委內瑞拉的奧里諾科河流域支流。該Ventuari來自委內瑞拉的圭亞那高原東部向西南流進入奧里諾科河。520公里長，它的主要支流是Manapiare河。
掠奪性魚類捕食多樣性和豐富的水生生態系統，能夠影響群落結構和生態系統功能。捕食的交互是通過形態上的限制，如捕食者和獵物的尺寸，並由嘴部可吞食大小決定，影響捕獲獵物的效率和時間。因此尺寸為捕食者可以消耗的最大潛在的獵物大小重要指標。
在一般情況下，一個獵物可以被捕獲並吃掉如果獵物/捕食者體尺寸比例是一個特定的範圍內，即在捕食窗口。
環境條件也是捕食的主要決定因素，並且可以確定獵物的選擇的尺寸為基礎機制的相對重要性。在熱帶河流，明顯的季節性水文循環提供了在捕食生態的金字塔。在高水位時，魚類和水生生物廣泛分佈。隨著水位下降，獵物密度的增加，生物相互作用變得更加激烈
which is the largest member of the peacock bass genus. This top level predator is considered by many to be the most powerful freshwater gamefish in the world, as evidenced by its current record of 27 pounds.
Cichla temensis, in its bright spawning color phase, is called “assu” in Brazil or “three-bar” in English. They become heavier and deeper bodied in this form due to prespawn changes and matured gonads. In the “paca” form, Cichla temensis displays a darker color pattern and a more hydrodynamic shape.
Cichla temensis identification is made somewhat complex by the species’ morphological variability. Specimens are encountered in two very distinct color and pattern phases, with an array of intermediate stages corresponding to their degree of reproductive readiness. The spawning pattern transformation process is gradual – the bars darken, colors brighten and the white speckles disappear.
Temensis is the most elongate of the Cichla species, with a body depth generally around 25 percent of its standard length . It has the smallest relative scale size of the genus, generally having from 100 to 125 scales along its lateral line.
The species has three distinct, entire bars from dorsal peak to below lateral line, almost to the abdomen. It also has a distinctive postorbital band . In paca form, they sport four horizontal rows of light colored speckles. Its colors are extremely variable. Juveniles can grow up to about 300 cm , while adults can grow from 300 mm up to about one meter . Its depth to length ratio is approximately 25 percent and it has about 110 lateral line scales. Similar species include Cichla pinima and Cichla vazzoleri.
