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GBIF·5216285speciesAnimalia284 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classElasmobranchii
  4. ›orderRhinopristiformes
  5. ›familyPristidae
  6. ›genusPristis
Pristis microdon
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IUCN CR · Critically endangered

Largetooth sawfish

Pristis microdon Latham, 1794

Also calledNagyfogú fűrészesrája (hun) · Poisson-scie grandent (fra) · வேல் சுறா (tam) · ノコギリエイ (jpn)

First described in: Latham, J. F. 1794. An essay on the various species of sawfish. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2(art. 25): 273-282, Pl. 26-27.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the stacks

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Every page naming Pristis microdon in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5216285.