Animalia > Chordata > Elasmobranchii > Rhinopristiformes > Pristidae > Pristis > Pristis perottetiPristis perotteti (Southern sawfish; Sawfish; Saw fish; Large-tooth sawfish; Largetooth Sawfish)Synonyms: Pristis perrotteti Language: Danish; Dutch; Kannada; Malayalam; Mandarin Chinese; Portuguese; Russian; Spanish; Sranan; Tamil; Telugu The large-tooth sawfish, Pristis perotteti, is a sawfish of the family Pristidae, found in tropical and subtropical parts of the Atlantic and east Pacific, but possibly now extirpated from most of the east Atlantic. As its relatives, it also enters freshwater, and there are records as far inland as Santarém and Lake Nicaragua. It reaches a length of up to 6.5 metres (21 ft), and the maximum published weight is 591 kilograms (1,303 lb). Recent evidence strongly suggests P. microdon is synonymous with P. pristis. Consequently, the IUCN removed P. perotteti from their list, instead recognizing it as part of the critically endangered P. pristis. |
Adult Weight [1] | 716.616 lbs (325.05 kg) | | Female Maturity [1] | 10 years | | Litter Size [1] | 7 | Maximum Longevity [1] | 30 years | Migration [2] | Amphidromous |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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