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Pristis

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Pristis 

(sawfish), the only genus of the family Pristidae. Sawfish are distinguished from other rays by their greatly elongated and flattened snout, which has toothlike structures on both sides. Saw sharks have a similar snout, but sawfish have a flatter body, no cirra, and ventral gill openings. There are seven species, distributed in the tropical and subtropical waters of oceans throughout the world. They live in shallows and occasionally enter rivers. Sawfish feed on fish and on invertebrates, which they sometimes dig up from the sand or mud with their snout. They are oviviviparous, producing 15 to 20 young. The American, or smalltooth, sawfish (P. pectinatus) reaches a length of 4.8 m and a weight of 2 tons. Sawfish have almost no commercial significance, and they are not harmful to man.
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viridis specimens on a gill net entangled on the bill of a sawfish, Pristis pectinata Latham 1794 (Table 2), but the sawfish could have traveled a considerable distance in a short time.
Range and dispersal of a tropical marine invader, the Asian green ... by Baker, Patrick; Fajans, Jonathan S.; Arnold, William S.; Ingrao, Debra A.; Marelli, Dan C.; Baker, S / Journal of Shellfish Research
6 metre female green sawfish, Pristis zijsro, was fitted with ah acoustic tag in May after being caught by a commercial gillnet fisherman Peter Tonon, near Port Musgrave, 100 km north of Weipa in Queensland.
A tracked green sawfish gives-up vital data by Ecos
On the recovery axis (Appendix 2) Aetomyleus vespertillo, Dasyatis brevicaudatus, Pristis clavate, and P.
Sustainability of elasmobranchs caught as bycatch in a tropical prawn ... by Stobutzki, Ilona C.; Miller, Margaret J.; Heales, Don S.; Brewer, David T. / Fishery Bulletin
 
 
 
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