Critically Endangered
Paratrygon aiereba
Paratrygon aiereba
Paratrygon aiereba also known as discus ray, manzana ray or ceja ray is a river stingray from the Amazon basin in South America.
Appearance
This freshwater ray has small eyes and a disc shaped roughly like a lily pad (the snout is slightly concave). It is brownish above with a dark vermiculated or reticulated pattern. It reaches up to 1.6 m (5.2 ft) in disc width and 110 kg (240 lb) in weight, making it one of the largest species in the family.
Males reach maturity at a disc width of about 60 cm (2.0 ft) and females at about 72 cm (2.4 ft).
Range and habitat
Paratrygon aiereba also known as discus ray, manzana ray or ceja ray is a river stingray from the Amazon basin in South America.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Adults are found in relatively deep waters in main river channels, but move to shallower waters to feed at night.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix III. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Paratrygon aiereba is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Paratrygon aiereba, Wikidata item Q3259324. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
