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Pristidae Bonaparte 1835

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Escuela de Biología, Museo de Zoología / Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical (CIBET) and Centro de
  • 2. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, 480 Wilson Rd # 13, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA joel. t. betts @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6018 - 8995
  • 3. Unidad de Gestión Técnica de Proyectos - Oficina de Relaciones Internacionales y de Cooperación Externa (ORICE / UGETEP),
  • 4. Universidad Americana (UAM, Costado Noroeste Camino de Oriente, Managua, Nicaragua edgar. ecologica @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8148 - 3195
  • 5. Department of Environment and Development, Zamorano Biodiversity Center. Zamorano University of Tegucigalpa, P. O. Box 93, Honduras evandenberghe @ zamorano. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7566 - 0415
  • 6. Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH). Chicago, Illinois, United States of America delias @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4215 - 0384 cmcmahan @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2113 - 8554

Description

Family Pristidae Bonaparte 1835 (Fig. 2B). Sawfishes; Pejesierras, Pejeserruchos, Pejepeines

Description: Body elongate and depressed at front, shark-like; up to 500 cm in length; snout produced in a long flat blade with teeth on each side (teeth of equal size and embedded in deep sockets); anterior edge of the greatly pectoral fins attached to the sides of the head via the anteorbital cartilage; eyes and spiracles on dorsal surface; gill openings ventral; pelvic fins modified as copulatory organs in males; two distinct dorsal fins; caudal fin present (Robertson & Allen 2015, Nelson et al. 2016). Distribution: Marine (rarely occurring in freshwater and ascending rivers), continental shelves; circumtropical, Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans (Nelson et al. 2016). One genus and two species in Nicaraguan freshwaters.

Notes

Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/038C8788E849FFBFFF792E3DFDEF3745

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.10208794 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/10208788 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB5FFF0E843FFB5FFEE2C1FFFA1347C (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/9ECCB3F7-5481-47C2-8A5A-E9A3F38C31BA (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/038C8788E849FFBFFF792E3DFDEF3745 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/219296023 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/279636/taxon/038C8788E849FFBFFF792E3DFDEF3745.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bonaparte
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rhinopristiformes
Family
Pristidae
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Pristidae Bonaparte, 1835 sec. Angulo, Betts, González-Alemán, Castañeda, Berghe, Elías, Mcmahan & Matamoros, 2023

References

  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: online information system. Version 2.0. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama´. Available from: https: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages (acccesed 18 February 2023)