River stingrays or
freshwater stingrays are
Neotropical freshwater fishes of the
Potamotrygonidae family in the
order Myliobatiformes, one of the four orders of
batoids, cartilaginous fishes related to sharks. River stingrays are found in rivers in South America draining into the
Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean as far south as the
River Plate in
Argentina. Each river system has its own
endemic stingrays. They are generally pale brown, variously mottled or speckled, have discs ranging from in diameter and venomous caudal stings. There are about twenty-eight species in four genera.