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Pristis zijsron Bleeker 1851

Description

Pristis zijsron Bleeker, 1851

Green Sawfish

Pristis zijsron Bleeker, 1851: 442. Holotype: RMNH 7418 (rostrum only). Type locality: Bandjarmasin, Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Local synonymy: Pristis zijaron— Filewood, 1973: 10 (PNG). Pristis zijsron— Kailola, 1987: 24 (Daru; Balimo; Gulf of Papua; Bootless Bay); White et al., 2017a: 277 (PNG); White et al., 2018: 198, figs (PNG).

PNG voucher material: (3 spec.) CAS SU 40592 (rostrum), ~ 1515 mm TL, Sepik River, 1 May 1929; KFRS E.378 (dried rostrum), rostrum length 285 mm, Balimo area, May ̄ Jul. 1968; KFRS E.411 (dried rostrum), rostrum length ~ 880 mm, Bootless Bay, Port Moresby, 8 May 1970.

Remarks: First recorded from PNG by Filewood (1973). Dried fins observed from coastal fisheries during recent surveys in the Gulf and Western Provinces. An additional specimen from the KFRS collection is considered lost or destroyed.

Notes

Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CAS , KFRS , RMNH
Material sample ID
RMNH 7418 , SU 40592
Event date
1929-05-01 , 1970-05-08
Verbatim event date
1929-05-01 , 1970-05-08
Scientific name authorship
Bleeker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Pristiformes
Family
Pristidae
Genus
Pristis
Species
zijsron
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Pristis zijsron Bleeker, 1851 sec. White & Ko'Ou, 2018

References

  • Bleeker, P. (1851) Vijfde bijdrage tot de kennis der ichthyologische fauna van Borneo, met beschrijving van eenige nieuwe soorten van zoetwatervisschen. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie, 2 (3), 415 - 442.
  • Filewood, L. W. C. (1973) Guide to elasmobranch key, with notes on collection of data. Internal Department of Primary Industries, Fisheries report, Port Moresby, 18 pp.
  • Kailola, P. J. (1987) The fishes of Papua New Guinea. A revised and annotated checklist. Volume One: Myxinidae to Synbranchidae. Research Bulletin No. 41. Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Port Moresby, 194 pp.
  • Finucci, B., White, W. T., Kemper, J. & Naylor, G. J. P. (2018) Redescription of Chimaera ogilbyi (Chimaeriformes; Chimaeridae) from the Indo-Australian region. Zootaxa, 4375, 191 - 210. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4375.2.2