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Potamotrygonidae (River stingrays) > Potamotrygoninae
Etymology: Plesiotrygon: Greek, plesios = near + Greek, trygon = a sting ray (Ref. 45335); iwamae: Named in honor of the late Brazilian zoologist Satoko Iwama (Ref. 34195).
Eponymy: Satoko Iwama (d: 1987) was a Brazilian zoologist who was a student and teacher at the Instituto de Botânica, São Paulo. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Taxonomic Remarks
Food items consist of fishes (e.g. catfishes), insects, crustaceans and nematodes (Rosa et al., 1987). Nothing is known of its reproductive biology, but pups are free-swimming at least by 12 cm DL. Recent references: Barriga (1991), Wilkens & Dohse (1993), Compagno & Cook (1995), Lovejoy (1996).
Ambiente: milieu / zona climatica / distribuzione batimetrica / gamma di distribuzione
Ecologia
; acqua dolce demersale. Tropical
South America: Upper to lower Amazon River basin, from Ecuador to Belém, Brazil, in the Napo, Solimões, Amazonas and Pará rivers.
Dimensione / Peso / Età
Maturità: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 58.0 cm WD maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 34195)
Feeds on small catfishes, insects, decapod crustaceans, and parasitic cestodes and nematodes (Ref. 34195).
Ciclo vitale e comportamento di accoppiamento
Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecondità | Larve
Rosa, R.S., H.P. Castello and T.B. Thorson, 1987. Plesiotrygon iwamae, a new genus and species of neotropical freshwater stingray (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae). Copeia 1987(2):447-458. (Ref. 34195)
Stato della Lista Rossa IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Minaccia per l'uomo
Harmless
Usi umani
Strumenti
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Stime basate su modelli
Indice di diversità filogenetica (Fonte Biblio. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.7500 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.01000 (0.00244 - 0.04107), b=3.04 (2.81 - 3.27), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Livello trofico (Fonte Biblio. 69278) |
3.4 ±0.46 se; based on food items. |
Resilienza (Fonte Biblio. 120179) |
Molto basso, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione più di 14 anni (Assuming Fec<10). |
Vulnerabilità della pesca (Ref. 59153) |
Moderate to high vulnerability (49 of 100). 🛈 |