Heliotrygon rosai
| Rosa's round ray | |
|---|---|
| Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Myliobatiformes |
| Family: | Potamotrygonidae |
| Genus: | Heliotrygon |
| Species: | H. rosai |
| Binomial name | |
| Heliotrygon rosai M. R. de Carvalho & Lovejoy, 2011 | |
Heliotrygon rosai, the Rosa's round ray, is a freshwater stingray species native to Brazil in the upper, middle, and lower Rio Amazonas basin. [1] Its maximum size is 80 cm. They have not been evaluated by the IUCN red list.[2]
References
- ↑ de Carvalho, M.R. & Lovejoy, N.R. (2011): Morphology and phylogenetic relationships of a remarkable new genus and two new species of Neotropical freshwater stingrays from the Amazon basin (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae). Zootaxa, 2776: 13-48.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Heliotrygon rosai" in FishBase. November 2014 version.
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