Is it a wild hybrid or some species I have never seen?

[Armatus Red]

I got this little boy form an importer about 4 months ago.


I was told it’s name is potamotrygon wallacei on the import bill, but obviously it isn’t.

Its pattern changes all the time since I bought it, but you can still recognise it’s the same one from some details.


4 months ago.

3 months ago.


2 months ago

1 day ago.

I used to think it’s a Potamotrygon orbignyi, but now I think I was wrong.
Is it some species I don’t know before or a wild hybrid ?

 

[kno4te]

Gpdriftwood

 

[Gpdriftwood]

Something I've never seen. Lol. Looks like there could be some orbignyi in there. Wild caught for sure then? Cool ray!

 

[spotfin]

Very nice ray! Not an orbignyi or wallacei. Look up yepezi stingray.
What caused the wound on its back?

 

[Kelly_Aquatics]

I know nothing about stingrays but it almost looks like a tigrina to me

(Not my fish just came up on google labeled as tigrina)

 

[Armatus Red]

Something I've never seen. Lol. Looks like there could be some orbignyi in there. Wild caught for sure then? Cool ray!

It looks just like a orbignyi at the beginning, but more and more black patterns show up on its skin, now I’m not so sure what is it. I think patterns of an orbignyi are suppose to be more regular, maybe it’s truly a hybrid with gene from tigrina.
The importer told me it is truly a wild ray and he got only two like this and the other one showed up about two years before this one. There are also lots of scars and chip along its fin around, which I think can only get in the wild, so I suppose the importer didn’t lie to me hahaha.

 

[Armatus Red]

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Very nice ray! Not an orbignyi or wallacei. Look up yepezi stingray.
What caused the wound on its back?

Thanks for liking. I think the base colour of yepezi should be darker and the black spots should be less regular than this one. The wound was caused by some big leporinus, after I removed them from this tank the wound soon healed, but as you can see there is still scar on it’s back. I’m not sure if the scar will disappear after all.

 

[Armatus Red]

I know nothing about stingrays but it almost looks like a tigrina to me
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(Not my fish just came up on google labeled as tigrina)

Yeah I truly think it just looks like a tigrina from the front. However the patterns and shape of their tails are different, and the base colour of this one seems not so bright like a tigrina. Also I found it’s not such sensitive and hard to keep like a real tigrina. Maybe it’s truly a wild hybrid and one of its parents is a tigrina hhh.

 

[Gpdriftwood]

Yeah I truly think it just looks like a tigrina from the front. However the patterns and shape of their tails are different, and the base colour of this one seems not so bright like a tigrina. Also I found it’s not such sensitive and hard to keep like a real tigrina. Maybe it’s truly a wild hybrid and one of its parents is a tigrina hhh.

Would help to know where it came from.