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ກຸ່ມປາກະດູກອ່ອນ (ເຊັ່ນ: ປາສະຫລາມ, ປາຜາໄລ) (sharks and rays) > Myliobatiformes (Stingrays) > Potamotrygonidae (River stingrays) > Potamotrygoninae
Etymology: Paratrygon:Greek, para in the side of + Greek, trygon = a sting ray (Ref. 45335); munduruku:Name munduruku' in honor of Munduruku, the indigenous communities that live along various stretches of the Tapajós River (Ref. 138774).
This species is distinguished from its congeners by the following set of characters: dorsal coloration of the disc is brown with numerous small, dark brown spots in axon or vermiculated formats spread throughout the disc, not very conspicous and lacking withish withish spots; small and quadrangular spiracle with a mean spiracle length of 4.6% DW (3.6-5.8% DW), with a reduced, rounded spiracular process that covers only a small part of the posterior portion of the spiracular aperture; dermal denticles on the central disc with a crown that possesses a central coronal plate and lateral coronal ridges in a leaf shape, with the lateral coronal ridges smaller and ranging from two; and the propterygium is arched and stout, with the posterior portion thicker than the anterior (Ref. 138774). Body shape (shape guide): other (see remarks); Cross section: flattened.
Loboda, T.S., 2026. Four new species of neotropical freshwater stingrays of the genus Paratrygon (Myliobatiformes:Potamotrygonidae) from clear waterrivers of the Amazon basin. Neotrop. Ichthyol. 24(1):1-80. (Ref. 138774)
ສະຖານະພາບບັນຊີແດງຂອງ IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
