Potamotrygon orbignyi
Species of cartilaginous fish
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Potamotrygon orbignyi, the smooth back river stingray, is a species of river stingray in the family Potamotrygonidae. It is found in the Amazon and Orinoco River basins in South America.[2]
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| At the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Myliobatiformes |
| Family: | Potamotrygonidae |
| Genus: | Potamotrygon |
| Species: | P. orbignyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Potamotrygon orbignyi (Castelnau, 1855) | |
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Etymology
The genus name Potamotrygon comes from the Greek words potamos (river) and trygon (sting ray). The species name is in honor of Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny.[3]
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