Peixes da planície de inundação do alto rio Paraná e áreas adjacentes: revised, annotated and updated
Author
Ota, Renata Rúbia
Author
Deprá, Gabriel de Carvalho
Author
Graça, Weferson Júnio da
Author
Pavanelli, Carla Simone
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Neotropical Ichthyology
2018
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journal article
10.1590/1982-0224-20170094
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1982-0224
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Potamotrygon amandae
Loboda, Carvalho, 2013
Fig. 2
Body depressed; disc length contained 0.8 to 1.2 times in disc width (DW); distance from mouth to cloaca 1.3 to 1.7, distance from cloaca to caudal sting 1.8 to 2.6, tail length 0.8 to 1.0, and caudal sting length
3.1 to 9.3 in
DW; mouth width 7.6 to 14.3, tail width
7.2 to 16.4 in
DW; tail length
1.4 in
disc length (DL); horizontal orbital diameter 1.0 to
5.3 in
least interorbital width. Mouth inferior; upper jaw with 18-39 teeth and lower jaw with 20-39 teeth. Pectoral fin with 92-103 rays; mid-dorsal spines 11-70 (
Loboda, Carvalho, 2013
). Dorsal disc coloration variable, from brown-olive to dark-grey, with bicolor ocelli distributed throughout entire disc (
Loboda, Carvalho, 2013
).
Maximum disc length.
341.0 mm.
Distribution.
Paraná-Paraguay system.
Remarks.
Potamotrygon amandae
was identified as
P.
cf.
motoro
by
Graça, Pavanelli (2007)
.
Loboda, Carvalho (2013)
revised the
P. motoro
species complex from the Paraguay-Paraná basin and assigned all specimens from the rio Paraná, upstream from the Itaipu dam, to
P. amandae
(which otherwise was found only in the Pantanal region). Additionally, the same authors recorded
P. motoro
from the rio Guaporé, upper rio
Paraguai
basin and lower reaches of the rio Paraná in
Argentina
. On the other hand, the only other
Potamotrygon
species found in the upper rio Paraná floodplain is
P.
cf.
falkneri
that, as
P. amandae
, is a nonnative species in the region. Both occurrences are associated with the filling of the Itaipu Reservoir and the consequent inundation of the Sete Quedas Falls (
Langeani
et al
., 2007
;
Júlio Júnior
et al
., 2009
;
Loboda, Carvalho, 2013
).