Porcupine river stingray

Not to be confused with porcupine ray.

Porcupine river stingray
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Superorder: Batoidea
Order: Myliobatiformes
Family: Potamotrygonidae
Genus: Potamotrygon
Species:
P. histrix
Binomial name
Potamotrygon histrix
Synonyms
  • Potamotrygon hystrix
  • Trygon hystrix

The porcupine river stingray (Potamotrygon histrix, sometimes incorrectly modified to Potamotrygon hystrix[2]) is a species of river stingray in the family Potamotrygonidae, the type of the Potamotrygon genus. It is found in the basins of the Paraná and Paraguay River basins in South America.[3] Most chemical weathering of minerals seems to take place in the upland drainage basins rather than on the floodplains, and most major solutes display conservative mixing in the river-floodplain system.[4] The population in the Rio Negro basin was described as a separated species, P. wallacei, in 2016.[5]

  1. ^ Soto, J.M.R.; Charvet-Almeida, P.; Pinto de Almeida, M. (2009). "Potamotrygon histrix". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T161657A5474126. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T161657A5474126.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Rosa, R.S.; Charvet-Almeida, P.; Quijada, C.C.D. (2010). "Biology of the South American Potamotrygonid Stingrays". In Carrier, J.C.; Musick, J.A.; Heithaus, M.R. (eds.). Sharks and Their Relatives II. Marine Biology. Vol. 20100521. CRC Press. pp. 241–285. doi:10.1201/9781420080483-c5. ISBN 978-1-4200-8047-6. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Potamotrygon hystrix". FishBase. October 2017 version.
  4. ^ Hamilton, Stephen K., Sippel, Suzanne J., Calheiros, DÓbora F., Melack, John M., ( 1997), An anoxic event and other biogeochemical effects of the Pantanal wetland on the Paraguay River, Limnology and Oceanography, 42, doi: 10.4319/lo.1997.42.2.0257.
  5. ^ Carvalho, M.R.d., 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.