Common sawfish

Common sawfish
Common sawfish
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Pristiformes
Family: Pristidae
Genus: Pristis
Species: P. pristis
Binomial name
Pristis pristis
(Linnaeus, 1758)
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The common sawfish, Pristis pristis, is a sawfish of the family Pristidae, found in tropical and subtropical parts of the Atlantic, Mediterranean, eastern Pacific and in northern Australia.[1] As suggested by its name, it was once plentiful, but has now declined drastically leading to it being considered a critically endangered species by the IUCN.[1] Its maximum length is 7.5 metres (25 ft), though 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) is more common.[2] Reproduction is ovoviviparous. Its taxonomy remains unresolved, and it forms a species complex together with P. microdon and P. perotteti.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Cook, S.F. & Compagno, L.J.V. (2006). Pristis pristis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 October 2009.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Pristis pristis" in FishBase. May 2006 version.

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