Paratrygon

Paratrygon
Paratrygon aiereba
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Myliobatiformes
Family:	Potamotrygonidae
Subfamily:	Potamotrygoninae
Genus:	Paratrygon A. H. A. Duméril, 1865
Type species
Trygon aiereba J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841 [1]

Paratrygon is a genus of cartilaginous fish in the family Potamotrygonidae. ^{[2] [3]}

Species

There are currently three recognized species: ^[2]

• Paratrygon aiereba (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841)
• Paratrygon orinocensis Loboda, Lasso, Rosa & De Carvalho, 2021
• Paratrygon parvaspina Loboda, Lasso, Rosa & De Carvalho, 2021

References

1. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Potamotrygonidae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 29 October 2024.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Paratrygon". FishBase . February 2024 version.
3. Loboda TS, Lasso CA, Rosa RS, Carvalho MR (11 June 2021). "Two new species of freshwater stingrays of the genus Paratrygon (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae) from the Orinoco basin, with comments on the taxonomy of Paratrygon aiereba". Neotropical Ichthyology. 19 (2) e200083. doi: 10.1590/1982-0224-2020-0083 . S2CID   236301627.