Potamotrygon orbignyi
| Potamotrygon orbignyi | |
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| At the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Myliobatiformes |
| Family: | Potamotrygonidae |
| Genus: | Potamotrygon |
| Species: | P. orbignyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Potamotrygon orbignyi (Castelnau, 1855) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Potamotrygon orbignyi, the smooth back river stingray or reticulate freshwater stingray,[1] is a species of river stingray in the family Potamotrygonidae. It is found in the Amazon and Orinoco River basins in South America.[2]
Etymology
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The genus name Potamotrygon comes from the Greek words potamos (river) and trygon (sting ray). The species name is in honor of Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny.[3]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Torres, Y.T.P.; Araújo, M.L.G.; Sayer, C.; Charvet-Almeida, P. (2025). "Potamotrygon orbignyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2025 e.T161609A892617. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T161609A892617.en. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Potamotrygon orbignyi". FishBase. March 2017 version.
- ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (24 November 2018). "Family POTAMOTRYGONIDAE Garman 1877 (Neotropical Stingrays)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
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Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Potamotrygon
- Freshwater stingrays of Brazil
- Freshwater fish of Colombia
- Fish of French Guiana
- Fish of Guyana
- Fish of Suriname
- Freshwater fish of Venezuela
- Fish of the Amazon basin
- Fish described in 1855
- Taxa named by François-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau
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