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(diagn., good ills., Brazil); Breder, Bull. Bingham oceanogr. Coll., I (i), 1927: 5 (listed, W.Indian 

 region); Hildebrand and Schroeder, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., ^J, 1928: 55 (descr., color, size, Chesa- 

 peake Bay); Rev, Fauna Iberica, Feces, J, 1928: 501 (ill.), 502 (in Key); Breder, Field Bk. Mar. Fish. 

 Atlant. Coast, 1929: 27 (diagn., size, util., range); Jordan, Manual Vert. Anim. NE. U. S., 1929: 16 

 (genl.); Truitt, Bean and Fowler, Bull. Md. Conserv. Dep., J, 1929: 27 (diagn., listed Worcester County, 

 Maryland, Chesapeake Bay); Nichols, Sci. Surv. Porto Rico, Spec. Publ. N. Y. Acad. Sci., 10 (2), 1929: 

 185 (listed, Porto Rico by ref. to Poey); Jordan, Evermann and Clark, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 

 2, 1930: 23 (in check list); Uriarte and Mateu, Notas Inst. esp. Oceanogr., (2) 53, 1931: 27 (nos. 

 sawteeth. Canaries, Lagos, W.Africa); Gowanloch, Bull. La. Conserv. Dep., 21, 1932: 88, 89 (diagn., 

 size, edibility, Louisiana); Beebe and Tee- Van, Field Bk. Shore Fish. Bermuda, 1933: 30 (Bermuda); 

 Gowanloch, Bull. La. Conserv. Dep., 23, 1933: 209 (feeding habits, Louisiana); Gudger, J. Elisha 

 Mitchell sci. Soc, ^9, 1933: 59 (listed, C. Lookout, N. Carolina); Beltran, List. Feces Mexicanos, 1934: 

 lo (listed, Mexico; not seen); Gunter, Copeia, 1935: 39 (Louisiana); Pozzi and Bordale, An. Soc. 

 cient. argent., 120, 1935: 152 (listed, Argentina, Lat. 38° S); Fowler, Bull. Amer. Mus. nat. Hist., 

 70 (i), 1936: 94 (diagn., size, ill., Mexico, Guiana, W. Indies; refs. for trop. W. Africa); Bull. Amer. 

 Mus. nat. Hist., 70 (2), 1936: 1153 (listed. Canaries, Lagos, W.Africa by ref. to Uriarte and Mateu, 

 193 1); Gunter, La. Conserv. Rev., 5 (4), 1936: 45 (Louisiana); Puyo, Bull. Soc. Hist. nat. Toulouse, 

 "JO, 1936: 89 (sizes, nos., French Guiana); Smith, Biol. Rev. (Cambridge), II, 1936: 64 (listed, fresh 

 water); Norman and Eraser, Giant Fishes, 1937: 60 (ill., range); Budker, Ann. Inst, oceanogr. Monaco, 

 18, 1938 : 236 (scales, sensory pits, no local.); Gunter, Amer. Midi. Nat., 26, 1941 : 196 (Texas); Fowler, 

 Arqu. Zool. Estad. Sao Paulo, j, 1942: 130 (listed, Santos and Natal, Brazil); Fish Culturist, 21 (9), 

 1942: 66 (listed, Cuba); Gunter, Amer. Midi. Nat., 25, 1942: 312 (Texas); Baughraan, Copeia, 1943: 

 43 (season, gravid females, young, Texas); Fowler, Monogr. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 7, 1945: 264 

 (listed, Florida); Schultz, Proc. U. S. nat. Mus., gg, 1949: 21 (no. saw teeth; Venezuela). 



Priuis granulosa Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol., 1 801: 352 (no. sawteeth, by ref. to Parra, 1787). 



Pristis serra Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol., 1801: pi. 70, fig. i (ill.). 



Pristis mississippiensis Rafinesque, Ichthyol. Ohiensis, 1820: 86 (descr., saw, young; listed, lower Mississippi 

 to Red R., Arkansas, but rep. for Ohio R. probably erroneous). 



Pristis antiquorum Owen, Odontogr., 1840-184 5: pi. 8, fig. i (ill. of saw, sawteeth, oral teeth); DeKay, Zool. 

 N. Y., 4, 1842: 365 (listed. New York, by ref to Schopf, 1788); Hall, 24th Ann. Rep. N. Y. St. Mus. 

 (1870), 1872: 36 (listed New York by ref. to Schopf, 1788); Gill, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1871- 

 1872), 1873: 811 (listed, C. Cod to Florida); Yarrow, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 1877: 217 (Beau- 

 fort, N. Carolina); Uhler and Lugger, Rep. Comm. Fish. Md., ist ed., 1876: 190; 2nd ed., 1876: 160 

 (Chesapeake Bay); Goode, Proc. U. S. nat. Mus., 2, 1879: 120 (listed, E.Florida); Jordan and Gil- 

 bert, Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 16, 1883: 37 (diagn., size, both shores Atlant.). 



Pristis acutirostris Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Poiss., i, 1865: 479 (descr., ident. by nos. sawteeth and position of 

 fins, Antilles); Benin, Bull. Mus. Hist. nat. Paris, (2) 11, 1939: 78 (type specimen in Paris Mus., An- 

 tilles). 



Pristis megalodon Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Poiss., i, 1865: 476, pi. 9, fig. 4 (descr., ill., saw, no local.); Bertin, 

 Bull. Mus. Hist. nat. Paris, (2) 11, 1939: 78 (type in Paris Mus., Cayenne, French Guiana). 



Pristis, no specific name. Shields, Amer. Nat., 13, 1879: 262 (i6-ft., 700-pound specimen. Grassy Sound 

 near C. May, New Jersey). 



Probable synonyms: 



Vivelle ou Poisson a Scie, Duhamel, Traite Peches, 3, Sect. 9, 1782: 331, pi. 25, figs. 3-5 (reported S. France, 



but specimen ill. without stated local.). 

 Pristis occa Rochebrune, Act. Soc. linn. Bordeaux, (4) 6, 1882: 49; Faune Senegambie, J, Poiss., 1883: 26 



(trop. W.Africa, doubtful if ident. with P. occa Dumeril [Hist. Nat. Poiss., j, 1865: 479J, no local.). 

 Pristis antiquorum Clarke, in Van Doren, Fish. Atlant. Coast, 1884: 156 (habits, size, Florida). 

 Pristis woermanni Fischer, Jber. Wiss. Anstalt. Hamburg (1883), j, 1884: 39 (no. sawteeth and fins as in P. 



pectinatus, but sep. because anterior sawteeth not spaced closer than posterior; Cameroon); Monod, 



Faune Colon. Fran9., 1927: 648 (by ref. to Fischer, 1884; not seen). 

 Pristis typica Hoflrnan, Rev. chil. Hist. Nat., 33, 1929: 29 (no descr., Cuba, ident. probable because of local., 



listed as poisonous). 



