Mikko's Phylogeny Archive Main Groups of Cartilagous Fishes   Potamotrygonidae - river stingrays

After Lovejoy, 1996, with species from Mould, 1995-1997

<==o Potamotrygonidae sensu Lovejoy, 1996 (jokirauskut; river stingrays)
   |?- Elipesurus spinicauda Schomburgk, 1843
   |-- Paratrygon aiereba (Müller & Henle, 1841) [Disceus Garman, 1877]
   `--+-- Plesiotrygon iwamae Rosa, Castello & Thorsen, 1987
      `--o Potamotrygon Garman, 1877 Pleist. R. Af. R. SA.
         |-- P. histrix (Müller & Henle, 1839 in D'Orbigny, 1839) 
         |-- P. motoro (Müller & Henle, 1841)
         |-- P. orbignyi (Castelnau, 1855)
         |-- P. dumerili (Castelnau, 1855)
         |-- P. henlei (Castelnau, 1855)
         |-- P. labradori (Castelnau, 1855)
         |-- P. magdalenae (Dumeril, 1865)
         |-- P. brachyura (Gunther, 1880)
         |-- P. reticulata (Garman, 1880)
         |-- P. constellata Vaillant, 1880)
         |-- P. ocellata (Ehgelhardt, 1912)
         |-- P. signata Garman, 1913
         |-- P. scobina Garman, 1913
         |-- P. humerosa Garman, 1913
         |-- P. circularis Garman, 1913
         |-- P. laticeps Garman, 1913
         |-- P. schroederi Yepez, 1957
         |-- P. pauckei Castex, 1964
         |-- P. schuemacheri Castex, 1964
         |-- P. falkneri Castex, 1966
         |-- P. menchacai Echenbach, 1967
         |-- P. castexi Castello & Yagolkowski, 1969
         |-- P. leopoldi Castex & Castello, 1970
         |-- P. yepezi Castex & Castello, 1970
         |-- P. sp.1 [Rosa, 1985]
         `-- P. sp.2 [Rosa, 1985]

Reference(s):

Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698

Carroll, R. L., 1988: Appendix. 594-648
in Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698

Long, J. A., 1995: The Rise of Fishes: 500 million years of evolution.
–Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore & London, pp. 1-223

Lovejoy, N. R., 1996: Systematics of myliobatoid elasmobranchs: with emphasis on the phylogeny and historical biogeography of neotropical freshwater stingrays (Potamotrygonidae: Rajiformes).
–Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society: Vol. 117, pp. 207-257

Mould, B., 1995-1997: The nomenclature and distribution of the recent Elasmobranchii.
–iNet: http://ibis.nott.ac.uk/elasmobranch.html

Nelson, J. S., 1994: Fishes of the world.
–John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 1994, xx-600