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Potamotrygon adamastor Fontenelle & Carvalho 2017

  • 1. Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Nazaré 481, São Paulo, SP 04263 - 000, Brazil.
  • 2. Departamento Acadêmico de Ensino (DAENS), Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Avenida Monteiro Lobato, s / n Jardim Carvalho, Ponta Grossa, PR 84016 - 210, Brazil.
  • 3. Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Castelo Branco, João Pessoa, PB 58051 - 900, Brazil.

Description

Potamotrygon adamastor Fontenelle & Carvalho, 2017

Holotype: MZUSP 104662; adult female, 542 mm DW (approximately the same DW as cited in Fontenelle & Carvalho, 2017) (Fig. 8); Rio Uraricoera —tributary of Rio Branco, Boa Vista municipality, Roraima state, Brazil; 3º22’52’’N, 60º35’44’’W; depth not listed; M. R. de Carvalho et al.; 21 Feb 2007.

Notes: Cut on right portion of abdomen; Cut on left gill openings; lateral corners of Meckel’s cartilage sectioned to allow opening of the mouth. Field no. AM 07-45.

Paratype: MZUSP 104664: AM07-47; one adult female, 450 mm DW (same DW as cited in Fontenelle & Carvalho, 2017); Rio Uraricoera —tributary of Rio Branco, Boa Vista municipality, Roraima state, Brazil, 3º22’96’’N, 60º35’44’’W; depth not listed; M. R. de Carvalho et al.; 24 Feb 2007.

Notes: Cut on right portion of abdomen; cut on left gill openings; lateral corners of Meckel’s cartilage sectioned to open the mouth; left clasper removed. Field no. AM 07-47.

Notes

Published as part of Lima, Arthur De, Loboda, Thiago Silva, Gianeti, Michel Donato, Silva, João Paulo Capretz Batista Da & Pinna, Mario De, 2023, Type specimens of Elasmobranchii in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZUSP), pp. 301-332 in Zootaxa 5296 (3) on pages 310-311, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5296.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7983829

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MZUSP , R
Material sample ID
MZUSP 104662 , MZUSP 104664
Event date
2007-02-21 , 2007-02-24
Verbatim event date
2007-02-21 , 2007-02-24
Scientific name authorship
Fontenelle & Carvalho
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Myliobatiformes
Family
Potamotrygonidae
Genus
Potamotrygon
Species
adamastor
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Potamotrygon adamastor Fontenelle, 2017 sec. Lima, Loboda, Gianeti, Silva & Pinna, 2023

References

  • Fontenelle, J. P. & Carvalho, M. R. (2017) Systematic revision of the Potamotrygon scobina Garman, 1913 species-complex (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes: Potamotrygonidae), with the description of three new freshwater stingrays species from Brazil and comments on their distribution and biogeography. Zootaxa, 4310 (1), 1 - 63. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4310.1.1