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Pristis microdon

Pristis microdon

largetooth sawfish(+1)·Latham, 1794

GBIF:155386393

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PROFILE

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Habitat

Marine Freshwater

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REGIONS

Geographic Distribution(11)

Madagascar
French Exclusive Economic Zone (Réunion)
South Africa
Madagascar
French Exclusive Economic Zone (Réunion)
Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone(KE)
Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone(MU)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone(MZ)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone(MZ)
Tanzanian Exclusive Economic Zone(TZ)
Tanzanian Exclusive Economic Zone(TZ)

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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions. Available in 2 languages.

englargetooth sawfishengjpnノコギリエイjpn

Vernacular (common) names are the everyday names used for a species in different languages and regions. A single species may have dozens of common names worldwide. This taxon has names in 2 languages.

englargetooth sawfish
eng
Source: Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
jpnノコギリエイ
jpn
Source: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL).

IDENTIFIERS

External Identifiers(1)

To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 10 proteins)

NCBI:txid337881

UNKNOWN

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CITATIONS

References(4)

  • 1

    Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).

    basis of record
  • 2

    Latham, J. F. (1794). An essay on the various species of sawfish. <em>The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> v. 2 (art. 25): 273-282, Pls. 26-27.

    original description
  • 3

    Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp.

    additional source
  • 4

    Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1).

  • Source Information

    World Register of Marine Species

    World Register of Marine Species

    checklist

    An authoritative classification and catalogue of marine names. To obtain a full copy, please go to https://www.marinespecies.org/usersrequest.php

    WoRMS Editorial Board (2026). World Register of Marine Species. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.14284/170 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-15.

    CC BYPublished 6/1/2026View dataset
    GBIF Usage Key
    155386393
    Dataset Key
    2d59e5db-57ad-41ff-97d6-11f5fb264527
    Origin
    source
    Backbone Key
    5216285
    Taxon ID
    urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217376
    Last Crawled
    6/4/2026
    Last Interpreted
    6/4/2026