Pristis pristis (Linnaeus 1758) pristis (Linnaeus 1758
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Elasmobranchii
- order
- Rhinopristiformes
- family
- Pristidae
- genus
- Pristis
- species
- Pristis pristis
description
Largeteeth Sawfish. To 7.0 m (23 ft) TL (Compagno and Last 1999). Pacific and Atlantic Oceans; originally Topolobampo (25.58 ° N, Amezcua-Linares 2009) or Mazatlan, Mexico (Faria et al. 2013) to Peru (Chirichingo and Cornejo 2001). Now greatly reduced or extirpated outside of Nicaragua, Panama, and Colombia (Kyne et al. 2013). Depth: 0 – 60 m (197 ft) (Weigmann 2016). This species may be a separate, Pacific Ocean, species Pristis zephyreus (Robertson and Allen 2015).