Potamotrygon rex

Potamotrygon rex

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Dasyatoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Classis: Chondrichthyes Subclassis: Elasmobranchii Infraclassis: Euselachii Division/Cohort: Neoselachii Subdivision/Subcohort: Batoidea Superordo: Batomorphii Ordo: Myliobatiformes Subordo: Myliobatoidei Superfamilia: Dasyatoidea

Familia: Potamotrygonidae
Genus: Potamotrygon
Species: Potamotrygon rex

Name

Potamotrygon rex Carvalho, 2016: 538

• Holotype: MZUSP 120371, 690 mm DW, adult ♀, collecyed by NEAMB team on 10 July 2003.
• Type locality: “rio Tocantins near the mouth of the right bank tributary rio Manoel Alves (type locality), Tocantins state, Brazil, 11°18'55"S, 048°27'28"W”.

References

Primary references

• Carvalho, M.R. de 2016. Potamotrygon rex, a new species of Neotropical freshwater stingray (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae) from the middle and upper rio Tocantins, Brazil, closely allied to Potamotrygon henlei (Castelnau, 1855). Zootaxa 4150(5): 537–565. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.5.2 Reference page.