Largetooth sawfish

Largetooth sawfish
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Rhinopristiformes
Family: Pristidae
Genus: Pristis
Species:
P. pristis
Binomial name
Pristis pristis
Synonyms

The largetooth sawfish (Pristis pristis, syn. P. microdon and P. perotteti) is a species of sawfish in the family Pristidae. It is found worldwide in tropical and subtropical coastal regions, but also enters freshwater. It has declined drastically and is now critically endangered.[1][3][4]

A range of English names have been used for the species, or populations now part of the species, including common sawfish (despite it being far from common today),[3] wide sawfish,[5] freshwater sawfish, river sawfish (less frequently, other sawfish species also occur in freshwater and rivers), Leichhardt's sawfish (after explorer and naturalist Ludwig Leichhardt) and northern sawfish.[6]

  1. ^ a b Espinoza, M.; Bonfil-Sanders, R.; Carlson, J.; Charvet, P.; Chevis, M.; Dulvy, N.K.; Everett, B.; Faria, V.; Ferretti, F.; Fordham, S.; Grant, M.I.; Haque, A.B.; Harry, A.V.; Jabado, R.W.; Jones, G.C.A.; Kelez, S.; Lear, K.O.; Morgan, D.L.; Philips, N.M.; Wueringer, B.E. (2022). "Pristis pristis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T18584848A58336780. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T18584848A58336780.en. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Pristis pristis". FishBase. November 2017 version.
  4. ^ Last; White; de Carvalho; Séret; Stehmann; Naylor (2016). Rays of the World. CSIRO. pp. 59–66. ISBN 9780643109148.
  5. ^ Allen, G. (1999). Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South East Asia (3 ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 44–45. ISBN 978-0-7309-8363-7.
  6. ^ "Pristis pristis — Freshwater Sawfish, Largetooth Sawfish, River Sawfish, Leichhardt's Sawfish, Northern Sawfish". Department of the Environment and Energy. 2017. Retrieved 11 November 2017.