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(Redirected from Discus ray) Genus of cartilaginous fishes

Paratrygon

Paratrygon aiereba
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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

Paratrygon is a genus of cartilaginous fish in the family Potamotrygonidae.

Species

There are currently three recognized species:

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

References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Potamotrygonidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Paratrygon". FishBase. February 2024 version.
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.

Taxon identifiers
Paratrygon	Wikidata: Q3363713 Wikispecies: Paratrygon ADW: Paratrygon BOLD: 99979 CoL: 6HCB GBIF: 2419324 iNaturalist: 90818 IRMNG: 1422919 ITIS: 564063 NCBI: 86368 Open Tree of Life: 674437 WoRMS: 270272

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