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Official and informal world records of freshwater fishes
Record weight
last update: 4th November 2007, by Mr. Heinz
Machacek
| ENGLISH NAME | SCIENTIFIC NAME | IGFA | RECORD WEIGHT | WATER | COUNTRY | YEAR | |||
| still valid | kilograms | ~ lbs ozs | |||||||
| SKATES/RAYS | |||||||||
| Freshwater Whipray | Himantura chaophraya | S: | 90,00 | 198 lb 7 oz | Bang Pakong River | Thailand | 2004 | ||
| F: | 600,00 | 1322 lb 12 oz | Thailand to Australia | unknown | |||||
| Short-tailed River Stingray | Potamotrygon brachyura | S: | 208,00 | 458 lb 9 oz | Rio Parana | Argentina | 2007 | ||
| Discus Ray | Paratrygon aiereba | IGFA | S: | 53,00 | 116 lb 14 oz | Rio Negro | Brazil | 2000 | |
| South American Freshwater Stingray | Potamotrygon motoro | IGFA | S: | 12,59 | 27 lb 12 oz | Rio Agua Boa | Brazil | 2000 | |
| F: | 15,00 | 33 lb 1 oz | Colombia to Argentina | unknown | |||||
| Porcupine River Stingray | Potamotrygon histrix | F: | 15,00 | 33 lb 1 oz | Parana River system | Brazil, Argentina | unknown | ||
| Raspy River Stingray | Potamotrygon scobina | F: | 15,00 | 33 lb 1 oz | Amazon River system, Rio Tocantins | Brazil | unknown | ||
| Ganges Stingray | Himantura fluviatilis | F: | approx. 15,00 | approx. 33 lb | Ganges River system | India, Bangladesh | unknown | ||
| Thorny Freshwater Stingray | Urogymnus ukpam | F: | approx. 15,00 | approx. 33 lb | Guinea-Bissau to Zaire | unknown | |||
| Thorny River Stingray | Potamotrygon constellata | F: | 10,00 | 22 lb 1 oz | Amazon River system | Colombia, Brazil | unknown | ||
| Vermiculate River Stingray | Potamotrygon castexi | F: | approx. 10,00 | approx. 22 lb | Amazon River system, Parana River system | Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina | unknown | ||
| White-edge Freshwater Whip Ray | Himantura signifer | F: | approx. 10,00 | approx. 22 lb | Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia | unknown | |||
| Rosette River Stingray | Potamotrygon schroederi | F: | approx. 10,00 | approx. 22 lb | Rio Apure, Rio Negro | Venezuela, Brazil | unknown | ||
| Long-tailed River Stingray | Plesiotrygon iwamae | F: | approx. 10,00 | approx. 22 lb | Amazon River system | Ecuador, Brazil | unknown | ||
| White-blotched River Stingray | Potamotrygon leopoldi | F: | approx. 10,00 | approx. 22 lb | Rio Xingu | Brazil | unknown | ||
| Largespot River Stingray | Potamotrygon falkneri | F: | approx. 8,00 | approx. 18 lb | Parana River system | Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina | unknown | ||
| Mekong Stingray | Dasyatis laosensis | F: | 6,00 | 13 lb 4 oz | Mekong River system | Thailand, Laos, Cambodia | unknown | ||