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Potamotrygon rex Carvalho, 2016

Great freshwater stingray
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Common names: Great freshwater stingray, Raia preta do Tocantins
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Type locality of Potamotrygon rex; collected from the middle and upper rio Tocantins, from its main course and lower reaches of left and right bank affluents, and upland in the rios Paranã and Maranhão. It was also collected from lagoons marginal to the Tocantins main course (Ref. 115938).
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Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/br.html
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Carvalho, M.R., 2016
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Dobbeltplettet flodpigrokke, Raia preta do Tocantins, ... more

Classificação / Names Nomes comuns | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Espécies) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Elasmobranchii (tubarões e raias) (sharks and rays) > Myliobatiformes (Stingrays) > Potamotrygonidae (River stingrays) > Potamotrygoninae
Etymology: Potamotrygon: Greek, potamos = river + Greek, trygon = a sting ray (Ref. 45335);  rex: Name from Latin 'rex' meaning king; referring to its large, bulky size and striking color pattern, king of the rio Tocantins Potamotrygon species; noun in apposition..

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia

; Água doce bentopelágico.   Tropical

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