| Pristiophorus Temporal range:
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| Shortnose Sawshark, (P. nudipinnis) | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
| Order: | Pristiophoriformes |
| Family: | Pristiophoridae |
| Genus: |
Pristiophorus J. P. Müller & Henle, 1837 |
| Type species | |
| Pristis cirratus Latham, 1794
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Pristiophorus is a genus of sawsharks found in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. Members of this genus differ from the Sixgill Sawshark ( Pliotrema warreni) in having five gill slits. Their rostral sawteeth lack prominent transverse ridges on the basal ledges, and the large teeth are not posteriorly serrated. [1]
Species
There are currently seven recognized species in this genus: [2] [3]
- Pristiophorus cirratus ( Latham, 1794) (Longnose sawshark)
- Pristiophorus delicatus Yearsley, Last & W. T. White, 2008 (Tropical sawshark)
- Pristiophorus japonicus Günther, 1870 (Japanese sawshark)
- Pristiophorus lanae Ebert & Wilms, 2013 (Lana's sawshark) [3]
- Pristiophorus lanceolatus Davis 1888
- Pristiophorus nancyae Ebert & Cailliet, 2011 (African dwarf sawshark) [4]
- Pristiophorus nudipinnis Günther, 1870 (Shortnose sawshark)
- Pristiophorus peroniensis Yearsley, Last & W. T. White, 2008 (Eastern Australian sawshark)
- Pristiophorus schroederi S. Springer & Bullis, 1960 (Bahamas sawshark)
- Pristiophorus striatus Underwood and Schlogl 2013
References
- ^ Compagno, Leonard J.V. (1984). Sharks of the World: An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Shark Species Known to Date. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization. ISBN 92-5-101384-5.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Pristiophorus in FishBase. October 2013 version.
- ^ a b Ebert, D.A. & Wilms, H.A. (2013): Pristiophorus lanae sp. nov., a new sawshark species from the Western North Pacific, with comments on the genus Pristiophorus Müller & Henle, 1837 (Chondrichthyes: Pristiophoridae). Pp. 86-100 in: de Carvalho, M.R., Ebert, D.A., Ho, H.-C. & White, W.T. (eds.) : Systematics and biodiversity of sharks, rays, and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of Taiwan. Zootaxa, 3752 (1): 1–386.
- ^ Ebert, D.A. & Cailliet, G.M. (2011): Pristiophorus nancyae, a New Species of Sawshark (Chondrichthyes: Pristiophoridae) from Southern Africa. Bulletin of Marine Science, 87 (3): 501–512.
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