Animalia > Chordata > Elasmobranchii > Rhinopristiformes > Pristidae > Pristis > Pristis microdon

Pristis microdon (Freshwater sawfish; Great-tooth Sawfish; Greattooth sawfish; Largetooth sawfish; Leichhardts sawfish; Northern sawfish; Sawfish; Small toothed saw fish; Smalltooth sawfish; Small-tooth sawfish; Smalltoothed sawfish; Wide sawfish; Wide snouted saw fish; Great-toothed sawfish)

Synonyms: Pristiopsis leichhardti (heterotypic); Pristis zephyreus (heterotypic)
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Wikipedia Abstract

The largetooth sawfish (Pristis microdon), also known as the Leichhardt's sawfish or freshwater sawfish, is a sawfish of the family Pristidae, found in shallow Indo-West Pacific oceans between latitudes 11° N and 39° S. As its relatives, it also enters freshwater. This species reaches a length of up to 7 metres (23 ft). Reproduction is ovoviviparous. Recent evidence strongly suggests P. microdon is synonymous with P. pristis. Consequently, the IUCN removed P. microdon from their list, instead recognizing it as part of the critically endangered P. pristis.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Amphidromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Sunderban National Park 261613 India  
Ujung Kulon National Park II 313466 Java, Indonesia    

Prey / Diet

Macrobrachium rosenbergii (giant river prawn)[2]
Neoarius graeffei (Salmon catfish)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Caligus furcisetifer[3]
Contracaecum brevicaecum <Unverified Name>[4]
Euterranova pristis[4]
Nonacotyle pristis[4]
Pristonchocotyle papuensis[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, 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
♦ 2Freshwater Sawfish Pristis microdon Latham, 1794 (Chondrichthyes : Pristidae) in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, DEAN C. THORBURN, DAVID L. MORGAN, ANDREW J. ROWLAND & HOWARD S. GILL, Zootaxa 1471: 27–41 (2007)
♦ 3Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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