- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classElasmobranchii
- ›orderRhinopristiformes
- ›familyPristidae
- ›genusAnoxypristis
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Knifetooth Sawfish
Anoxypristis cuspidata (Latham, 1794)
Also calledNokogiriei (jpn) · Pejepeine (spa) · Pez Sierra (spa) · Poisson-scie (fra) · Sayyaf (ara) · Sayyafah (ara) · سمكة المنشار ذات السن الحا (ara) · ปลาฉนากจะงอยปากเล็ก (tha) · 劍沙 (zho) · 鈍鋸鮫 (zho) · 鈍鋸鰩(尖齒鋸鰩) (zho) · 鈍鋸鱝 (zho) · ノコギリエイ (jpn)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Remarks: First recorded from PNG by Filewood (1973). White et al. (2017 a) summarises sawfish records from PNG but most survey reports only record ‘ sawfish’ with species verification not possible. Dried fins observed from coastal fisheries during recent surveys in the Gulf and Western Provinces; whole specimens observed in prawn trawl bycatch during recent surveys; commonly caught at the mouth of the Sepik River and off Broken Water Bay in East Sepik Province. An additional 16 specimens (9 registered lots) from the KFRS collection are considered lost or destroyed.
An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea
materials_examined
PNG voucher material: (3 spec.) FUMT ̄ P 10855, male 1182 mm TL, Oriomo River Estuary, Western Province, 24 Sep. 1989; KFRS E. 619, female 1330 mm TL, west of Avirara, Gulf of Papua, 8 ° 18 ’ 39 ” S, 146 ° 11 ’ 27 ” E, 12 – 14 m depth, 27 Aug. 2015; KFRS E. 796, female embryo 570 mm TL, Nigoherm Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, 0 ° 33 ’ S, 144 ° 10 ’ E.
An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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Every page naming Anoxypristis cuspidata in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2420848.