Potamotrygon tigrina, a new species of freshwater stingray from the upper Amazon basin, closely related to Potamotrygon schroederi Fernandez-Yépez, 1958 (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae)

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 2827, 2011, Pages 1-30

  De Carvalho, Marcelo R ^a   Perez, Mark H Sabaj ^b   Lovejoy, Nathan R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Morphology; Myliobatiformes; South America; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CHONDRICHTHYES; MYLIOBATIFORMES; POTAMOTRYGON; POTAMOTRYGON MOTORO; POTAMOTRYGONIDAE;

EID: 79955139082     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2827.1.1     Document Type: Article

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