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The narrow sawfish (Anoxypristis cuspidata), also known as the pointed sawfish or knifetooth sawfish, is a species of sawfish in the family Pristidae, part of the Batoidea, a superorder of cartilaginous fish that include the rays and skates. Sawfish display a circumglobal distribution in warm marine and freshwater habitats.
The narrow sawfish does not receive the same level of protection as the Pristis sawfish. [ 109 ] [ 116 ] Under CITES regulations, Australia was the only country that could export wild-caught sawfish for the aquarium trade from 2007 to 2013 (no country afterwards). [ 21 ]
Anoxypristis cuspidata (Latham, 1794) White & Moy-Thomas 1941 (Knifetooth sawfish or pointed sawfish) Genus Pristis Linck 1790. Pristis clavata Garman, 1906 (Queensland sawfish or dwarf sawfish) Pristis pectinata Latham, 1794 (Smalltooth sawfish) Pristis pristis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Common large-tooth sawfish) Pristis zijsron Bleeker, 1851 ...
Cartilaginous fishes include sharks, rays, skates, and shovelnose rays. The majority of the order Rhinopristiformes, which includes sawfish, guitarfish, wedgefish, and other shovelnose rays, is considered critically endangered, with 28 of its 64 evaluated species considered critically endangered by the IUCN.
Known for its long, flat and teeth-edged snout — resembling a saw, hence the name — the smalltooth sawfish is one of five species of sawfish belonging to the ray family of fish, NOAA says. The ...
This story has been updated to report the number of dead smalltooth sawfish confirmed by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission since Jan. 30 is 15. The agency had previously said ...
A combination of characters are necessary to distinguish it from the other sawfish species: the longcomb sawfish has teeth to near the base of the rostrum or "saw" (unlike the knifetooth sawfish, Anoxypristis cuspidata), 23–37 teeth on each side of the rostrum (18–24 in the dwarf sawfish, P. clavata, 20–32 in smalltooth sawfish, P ...
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