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ID

Species ID No.	789
Collection Code	PU
Collection No.	20
Genus	Potamotrygon
Species	motoro
Common Name	Ocellate river stingray
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	G. Naylor, J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Myliobatiformes
Family	Potamotrygonidae
ID Notes	liver sent to Fernando Marques (March, 2003); no parasites; a cute pup with a cropped tail; ray specimen awaitng shipment to Ricardo Rosa. Included in Naylor et al. (2011). Correction: Ray specimen actually never sent to Rosa; rather, deposited in Sao Paulo at USP Zoological collection (MZUSP)

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
01/26/2009	Created
06/12/2012	Modified
07/20/2015	Modified	F. Reyda
08/06/2015	Modified	F. Marques
09/16/2016	Modified	J. Caira

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	male

Maturity		Freshness
PCL (cm)		Disk Length (cm)	16
Fork Length (cm)		Disk Width (cm)	14.5

Total Length (cm)

Host Specimen Necropsied

Host Specimen Deposition

Saved Entire	Yes
Accession No.	MZUSP 117830

Host DNA

DNA Samples Saved	Yes
DNA Samples Deposition	J. Caira at the University of Connecticut; G. Naylor at Florida State University
ND2 Data Generated	Yes
ND2 Sequence Data
GenBank No.
Cophylogeny Specimen

Host Notes

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	01/12/2002
Collected By	Juan Canales
Source of Specimen
Collection Method	hook & line
Collection Depth (m)
Country	Peru
Ocean
Body of Water/River	Madre de Dios River
River Basin
Island(s)
State/Province	Madre de Dios
City	Boca Manu
Coordinates	12 16 493 S, 70 54 464 W
Decimal Degree Latitude	-12.274883333333333
Decimal Degree Longitude	-70.90773333333334

Associated Parasites

Parasites	10% NBF	95% EtOH	10% NBF Picked
Valve	Yes
Sift
Worms			n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 0 )
Parasite Notes	valve and stomach at UConn-April 2012-ADS