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A new species of Neotropical freshwater stingray of the genus Potamotrygon Garman, 1877 from the Río Madrede Díos, Peru (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae)
Provedor de dados: Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia
Autores: Silva,João Paulo C.B. da; Carvalho,Marcelo R. de.
Potamotrygon tatianae sp. nov., is described from Río Madre de Díos, Peru, upper Rio Madeira basin. The new species is distinguished from all congeners by a unique combination of characters, including its dorsal color pattern formed by a relatively slender, highly convoluted, beige to dark brown vermicular pattern, a single row of dorsal tail spines, and a relatively longer tail posterior to caudal stings. Potamotrygon tatianae sp. nov., occurs sympatrically with other species of Potamotrygon (P. falkneri, P. orbignyi and P. motoro). From the similar species P. falkneri, P. tatianae sp. nov., is further distinguished by the absence of circular, reniform, and oval spots, by its proportionally much longer tail, by having dorsal tail spines in one irregular...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Potamotrygon tatianae sp. nov.; Potamotrygon falkneri; Taxonomy; Morphology; Cryptic species; Río Madeira; South America.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0031-10492011000800001