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Largespot river stingray

Potamotrygon falkneri
Davart il num: Potamotrygon comes from the Greek words for 'river' and 'sting ray'. The species name honours Tomas Falkner, a British Jesuit priest who did scientific work in Argentina in the 1700s.1
Dovra in mediDarar mortal, ma ina piztgada sto vegnir tractada dad in medi.
Privel per umans: GravIna piztgada sto vegnir tractada dad in medi. Cas da mort èn fitg rars.

The largespot river stingray is a freshwater stingray with a flat, round body covered in dense spots. It lives in the rivers of tropical and subtropical South America, mainly the Paraná-Paraguay river basin and parts of the upper Amazon. It is sometimes kept in aquariums, but it needs a very large tank.1

Viva en
Tropical and subtropical South America: the Paraná-Paraguay basin (southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, northeastern Argentina) and the upper Amazon Basin (Bolivia, eastern Peru, western Brazil)1
America dal Sid
Pagina iniziala
It lives in freshwater rivers. It is sometimes seen in the aquarium trade, where it needs a very large tank.1
Lunghezza
89 cm (2,9 ft)1
Sveltezza maximala
circa 16 km/h (9,9 mph)
Nudar, stima approximativa
Propi!Foto da Largespot river stingray
Largespot river stingray. Foto: Donald Davesne. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

  • It is densely spotted on its upper side.1
  • The exact colour and pattern vary a lot between individuals, and many intermediate patterns exist.1
  • The disc (the flat body) reaches a width of up to 52 cm.1
  • Its total length, including the tail, reaches up to 89 cm.1

Savens confundì cun: The so-called 'tiger stingray' has often been mistaken for this species. It is a separate species, P. tigrina, which was only scientifically described in 2011.1

Forza dal tissi

Piztgadas

Il tissi vegn or tras in aguigl.

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: GravIna piztgada sto vegnir tractada dad in medi. Cas da mort èn fitg rars.

Sch'el piztga

  • Metta la plaja en aua chauda, uschè chauda sco che la persuna po supportar senza sa brischar (emprova cun tes agen maun), durant 30 fin 90 minutas. Tschertga agid medicinal, surtut tar peschs crap e rajas.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

  • Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
  • Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
  • Sch'in tal animal ta piztga: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

Largespot river stingray circa 89 cm lung (2,9 ft)In giat da chasa circa 50 cm (1,6 ft)In chaun circa 1 m (3,3 ft)
uschè lung sco 2 giats da chasa dal nas fin a la cuauschè lung sco 5 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess nudar la lunghezza d'in grond bassin (50 m) en 11 secundas

Quant grond è Largespot river stingray cumpareglià cun TAI?

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Quant svelt è el?

bun da savair

Fatgs

1

Its natural range was once cut off from the upper Paraná basin by the Guaíra Falls. After the Itaipu Dam was built, the falls disappeared, which let this species and several others spread into that area.1

2

Its spotted pattern is so variable that one pattern was once described as a separate species, P. castexi, and another as P. menchacai. All of these are now treated as variants of this species.1

3

It is sometimes kept in aquariums, but it needs a very large tank because of its size.1

Destructur da mits

Mit: The 'tiger stingray' is the same animal as the largespot river stingray.

Vardad: The tiger stingray is a separate species, P. tigrina, which was only scientifically described in 2011. It was earlier mistaken for P. menchacai, which is a name for this species.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific
Potamotrygon falkneri
Gruppa
Peschs tissientads
Famiglia
Potamotrygonidae2
Urden
Myliobatiformes
Continents
America dal Sid
Privel per umans
3 / 5: Grav3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

  1. Potamotrygon falkneri (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Potamotrygon falkneri (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
  3. Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.

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