Animalia > Chordata > Elasmobranchii > Myliobatiformes > Potamotrygonidae > Paratrygon > Paratrygon aiereba

Paratrygon aiereba (Discus ray)

Synonyms: Disceus thayeri; Paratrygon ajereba; Raja ajereba; Trygon aiereba; Trygon strogylopterus
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Wikipedia Abstract

Paratrygon is a monotypic genus of the cartilaginous fish in the family of Potamotrygonidae. The sole species is Paratrygon aiereba, the discus ray, which is native to South American rivers in the Amazon and Orinoco basins. The scientific name of the species was first validly published in 1841 by Müller & Henle.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Manú National Park II 4213523 Cusco, Peru  
Otishi National Park 760925 Peru  
Reserva de la Biosfera de Yasuni Biosphere Reserve 4156313 Ecuador  

Prey / Diet

Aphyocharax alburnus (Goldencrowned aphyocarax)[1]
Loricariichthys maculatus (Catfish)[1]
Macrobrachium amazonicum (Amazon River prawn)[1]
Prochilodus mariae[1]

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 3Pollerspöck, J. & Straube, N. (2015), Bibliography database of living/fossil sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) -Host-Parasites List/Parasite-Hosts List-, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 04/2015;
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0