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    freshwater stingrays are Neotropical freshwater fishes of the family Potamotrygonidae in the order Myliobatiformes, one of the four orders of batoids, cartilaginous...
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    river stingray, is a species of freshwater stingray in the family Potamotrygonidae. It was the first species to be described in the family and is also...
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    Potamotrygon is a genus of freshwater stingrays in the family Potamotrygonidae native to the rivers of South America, and sometimes seen in the aquarium...
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    (stingarees), Urotrygonidae (round rays), Dasyatidae (whiptail stingrays), Potamotrygonidae (river stingrays), Gymnuridae (butterfly rays) and Myliobatidae (eagle...
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    fishes Order Characiformes: characins, tetras and relatives Family Potamotrygonidae: river stingrays Family Arapaimidae: bonytongues Family Loricariidae:...
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    (Potamotrygon leopoldi) is a species of freshwater fish in the family Potamotrygonidae. It is endemic to the Xingu River basin in Brazil and as such prefers...
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    belonging to the families Dasyatidae, Urotrygonidae, Urolophidae, and Potamotrygonidae. Stingrays generally do not attack aggressively or even actively defend...
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    stingray (Potamotrygon brachyura) is a species of river stingray (family Potamotrygonidae) native to the Río de la Plata Basin in South America. It is sometimes...
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    (Potamotrygon henlei) is a species of freshwater fish in the family Potamotrygonidae. It is endemic to the lower Tocantins basin and Araguaia basin in Brazil...
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    Other species that enter rivers include the stingrays (Dasyatidae, Potamotrygonidae and others) and sawfish (Pristidae). Some skates (Rajidae), smooth...
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    fishes (Gymnotiformes) inhabit the Amazon basin. River stingrays (Potamotrygonidae) are also known. The bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) has been reported...
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  • osmoregulatory mechanisms found in the river stingrays of the family Potamotrygonidae. This may be due to the relatively recent date of freshwater colonization...
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    Paratrygon (category Potamotrygonidae)
    Paratrygon is a genus of cartilaginous fish in the family Potamotrygonidae. There are currently three recognized species: Paratrygon aiereba (Müller &...
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    stingray, is a species of freshwater stingray belonging to the family Potamotrygonidae, native to South America in the Neotropical region. P. rex, along with...
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    †Lessiniabatis (fossil) Family Dasyatidae (whiptail stingrays) Family Potamotrygonidae (river stingrays) Family Gymnuridae (butterfly rays) Family †Dasyomyliobatidae...
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    Potamotrygon hystrix) is a species of river stingray in the family Potamotrygonidae, the type of the Potamotrygon genus. It is found in the basins of the...
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    as evidence suggests it may be more closely related to the families Potamotrygonidae and Urotrygonidae than to other dasyatids. Subfamily Dasyatinae Bathytoshia...
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    tiger river stingray, is a species of freshwater ray in the family Potamotrygonidae. This endangered species is endemic to black- and whitewater rivers...
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    Myliobatidae (devilrays) Family Plesiobatidae (giant stingarees) Family Potamotrygonidae (Neotropical stingrays) Family Rhinopteridae (cownose rays) Family...
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    Himantura (H. pacifica and H. schmardae) and the river stingrays (Potamotrygonidae) than to the congeneric blotched fantail ray (T. meyeni), which is...
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    implications on the distribution of freshwater stingrays (Chondrichthyes, Potamotrygonidae)" (PDF). PanamJAS. 5 (3): 454–464. Archived from the original on 13...
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    freshwater stingray, is a species of freshwater stingray in the family Potamotrygonidae from tropical and subtropical South America. It is sometimes seen in...
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  • (Potamotrygon scobina) is a species of freshwater fish in the family Potamotrygonidae. This stingray is endemic to the Amazon basin in Brazil, where known...
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  • Plesiotrygon nana (category Potamotrygonidae)
    black-tailed antenna ray, is a species of freshwater stingray in the family Potamotrygonidae. It is native to the western Amazon basin in northeastern Peru, western...
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    Chupare stingray (category Potamotrygonidae)
    stingray (Styracura schmardae) is a species of stingray in the family Potamotrygonidae, found in the western Atlantic Ocean from the Gulf of Campeche to Brazil...
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    "A new species of Neotropical freshwater stingray (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae) from the Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brazil: the smallest species of Potamotrygon"...
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  • Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae, found in the Amazon, Africa, Asia, and Australia Potamotrygonidae, found in South America Grows up to 7.2 feet across (wing span) Grows...
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  • Polyprionidae Polypteridae Pomacanthidae Pomacentridae Pomatomidae Potamotrygonidae Priacanthidae Pristidae Pristiophoridae Prochilodontidae Profundulidae...
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    implications on the distribution of freshwater stingrays (Chondrichthyes, Potamotrygonidae). PanamJAS 5(3): 454-464. "Waters". Amazon Waters. Retrieved 10 October...
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  • Heliotrygon (category Potamotrygonidae)
    Heliotrygon is a genus of freshwater stingrays in the family Potamotrygonidae. The genus is endemic to the Amazon basin in South America. Despite being...
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