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Plesiotrygon nana Carvalho & Ragno 2011

  • 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

Plesiotrygon nana Carvalho & Ragno, 2011

Paratype: MZUSP 108777: PU 09-45; one juvenile female, 74 mm DW (approximately the same DW as cited in Carvalho & Ragno, 2011) (Fig. 22); Rio Itaya, tributary of Rio Nanay (itself an affluent of Río Amazonas), near Iquitos, Departamento Loreto, Peru; depth not listed; F. Marques; 18 Oct 2009.

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 page 327, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5296.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7983829

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
PU
Material sample ID
MZUSP 108777
Event date
2009-10-18
Verbatim event date
2009-10-18
Scientific name authorship
Carvalho & Ragno
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Myliobatiformes
Family
Potamotrygonidae
Genus
Plesiotrygon
Species
nana
Taxon rank
species
Type status
paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Plesiotrygon nana Carvalho, 2011 sec. Lima, Loboda, Gianeti, Silva & Pinna, 2023

References

  • Carvalho, M. R. & Ragno, M. P. (2011) An unusual, dwarf new species of Neotropical freshwater stingray, Plesiotrygon nana sp. nov., from the upper and mid Amazon basin: the second species of Plesiotrygon (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae). Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia, 51, 101 - 138.