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Potamotrygonidae
Short-tailed river stingray
Potamotrygon brachyura
Turtle patterned giant disc on river bottoms
- Temperate
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- South America
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
LargeShort-tailed river stingray is a freshwater fish of South America. The species occupies freshwater habitats. Records give a maximum length of 95 cm.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Stingrays
- Family
- Potamotrygonidae
- Genus
- Potamotrygon
- Maximum length
- 95 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Distribution
- South America: Paraná-Paraguay (including Cuiabá river in Brazil), Uruguay basins and Argentina (Ref. 58839 ). Formerly classified as data deficient in the 2000 IUCN red list of threatened species (Ref. 36508 ).
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
Class
Order
Family
Conservation status
