Potamotrygon in the Wild: Natural Habitat

Link - Photo Collection of Potamotrygon in the Wild.

Potamotrygonids only occur in South American rivers that drain into the Atlantic Ocean or Caribbean Sea. They are are conspicuously absent, however, from the São Francisco basin in northeastern Brazil, rivers that drain into the Atlantic from the Atlantic rainforest of northeastern and southeastern Brazil, the upper Paraná basin, and rivers south of the La Plata river in Argentina. Generally, most potamotrygonid species have distributions restricted to a single basin or river system, with only a few species present in more than one basin. (e.g. Potamotrygon motoro)

P. Leopoldi feeding in it's natural habitat. -Patricia Charvet-Almeida

A display of different water parameters in the Amazon.