Freshwater stingrays · names

Every name, resolved

A river stingray is known by a current scientific binomial under the Catalog of Fishes and, often, by a clutch of English and trade names — “motoro”, “black diamond”, “teacup ray”, “ceja”. Because river-stingray taxonomy is difficult — several species were long confused, and the trade coins its own names for colour forms — the same animal often travels under more than one name. This index cross-references both layers — the 43 scientific names and 62 common names — and resolves each one to its species page.

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Scientific name — the valid binomial under the Catalog of Fishes, the authority for valid names. Common name — English vernacular and trade names recorded for the species, including the colour-form labels the hobby uses (the “black diamond” is Potamotrygon leopoldi). Each entry is tagged with its genus. Several recently-described or little-traded rays have no English name and appear by their binomial only.

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