Potamotrygon wallacei

Taxonavigation: Dasyatoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata 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 wallacei

Name

Potamotrygon wallacei Carvalho et al., 2016

• Holotype: MZUSP 117809.
• Paratypes (21): BMNH 1893.4.24.42 (0, 1); MNRJ 3532 (2, 1); MZUSP 10290 (0, 1), 19209 (0, 1), 104962 (0, 1), 104966 (0, 1), 104977 (1, 0), 117804 (0, 1), 117805 (1, 0), 117806 (1, 0), 117807 (0, 1), 117808 (0, 1), 117810 (0, 1), 117811 (0, 1), 117812 (1, 0).

Type locality: Rio Negro, municipality of Barcelos, Amazonas, Brazil, 0° 57' 30.24"S, 062° 56' 14.697"W.

Etymology: The specific name honors Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), the first naturalist to collect, observe and illustrate this species while on his travels in the Rio Negro in the early 1850's (Wallace, 2002).

References

• Carvalho, M.R., Rosa, R.S. & Araújo, M.L.G. 2016. A new species of Neotropical freshwater stingray (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae) from the Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brazil: the smallest species of Potamotrygon. Zootaxa 4107(4): 566–586. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4107.4.5. Reference page.