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Potamotrygon

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Description

Potamotrygon is a genus of freshwater stingrays in the family Potamotrygonidae native to the rivers of South America, and sometimes seen in the aquarium trade.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potamotrygon, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2419329	https://www.gbif.org/species/2419329
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	354642	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=354642

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Elasmobranchii : Myliobatiformes : Potamotrygonidae : Potamotrygon

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Myliobatiformes : Potamotrygonidae : Potamotrygon

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
class	Chondrichthyes	Huxley 1880
subclass	Elasmobranchii	Bonaparte 1838
infraclass	Euselachii
-	Neoselachii	Compagno 1977
-	Batoidea
order	Myliobatiformes	Compagno 1973
family	Potamotrygonidae
genus	Potamotrygon	Garman 1877

Scientific Name

Potamotrygon Garman, 1877

Name Published In

Garman, S. 1877. On the pelvis and external sexual organs of selachians, with especial references to the new genera Potamotrygon and Disceus (with descriptions). Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 19: 197-215.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Potamotrygon	genus	belongs to Dasyatidae	stated without evidence	Jordan, 1963
Potamotrygon	genus	belongs to Potamotrygonidae	stated without evidence	Adnet et al., 2014

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

48.6 - 37.2 Ma
Eocene

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Myliobatiformes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Myliobatiformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

D. S. Jordan. 1963. The Genera of Fishes and a Classification of Fishes. Stanford University Press

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potamotrygon

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Potamotrygon adamastor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon albimaculata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon amandae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon amazona species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon boesemani species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon brachyura species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon constellata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon falkneri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon garmani species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon henlei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon humerosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon hystrix species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon jabuti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon leopoldi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon limai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon magdalenae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon marinae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon motoro species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon ocellata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon orbignyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon pantanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon rex species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon schroederi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon schuhmacheri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon scobina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon signata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon tatianae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon tigrina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon ucayalensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Potamotrygon wallacei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Potamotrygon yepezi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Pomatotrygon	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Elasmobranchii : Myliobatiformes : Potamotrygonidae : *Pomatotrygon*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1877	Potamotrygon Garman p. 389
1963	Potamotrygon Jordan p. 604
2014	Potamotrygon Adnet et al. p. 36

References

Jordan D. S. (1963) The Genera of Fishes and a Classification of Fishes, Stanford University Press, 1-816

Adnet S., Gismondi R. S., et al (2014) Comparisons of dental morphology in river stingrays (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae) with new fossils from the middle Eocene of Peruvian Amazonia rekindle debate on their evolution, Naturwissenschaften 101 1, 33-45 doi:10.1007/s00114-013-1127-1

Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2019). Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2019. - via World Register of Marine Species

Compagno, Leonard J. V. / Hamlett, William C., ed., 1999: Checklist of Living Elasmobranchs. Sharks, Skates, and Rays: The Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes. 471-498. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Nelson, Joseph S., 1994: null. Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Eschmeyer online (Jun 2012) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

FishBase - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 19 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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