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1860 (Cape of Good Hope). — Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 29, 

 p. 36, 1860 (Calcutta).— DuMfiEiL, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 475, pi. 9, 

 fig. 3 (snout), 1865 (Haiti). — GtJNTHER, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, 

 p. 439, 1870 (West Indies, Mexico, Calcutta, Cape of Good Hope). — 

 Klunzingee, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, p. 673, 1871 (Koseir, Red 

 Sea).— Day, Fishes of India, Suppl., p. 811, 1888.— Ogilbt, Cat. Fishes Aus- 

 tralian Mus., pt. 1, p. 14, 1888 (Red Sea). — Botru:NGEE, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1889, p. 243 (Muscat). — Day, Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, 

 p. 39, 1889 (Akyab).— Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 510, 1891 

 (reference). — Eij3ja, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 618, 1895 (Luzon, Manila 

 Bay, Laguna de Bay).— Annandale, Mem. Indian Mus., vol. 2, p. 7, 1909 

 (Ganges estuaries). — Gaeman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 262, 1913 

 (tropical and temperate seas). — Zugmayer, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., math.- 

 phys. KL, vol. 26, p. 8, 1913 (Oman).— Robinson, Natal Fisher. Rep., p. 51, 

 1919.— NoEMAN, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 9, p. 320, 1922 (Natal).— 

 FowLEE, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1925, p. 192 (Durb'an). — ToKr 

 TONESE, Boll. Mus. Zool. Auat. Comp. Torino, ser. 3, vol. 45, p. 11, 1935-36 

 (Mar Rosso). 



Pristis pectinata Br^iNvrmE, Faune Frangaise, Poiss, p. 51, pi. 12, tig. 3, 1825 

 (our seas). 



Squalus pectinatus Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, pp. 5, 361, 1822. 



Squalus pristis (not Linnaeus) Foeskal, Descript. Animal,, p. 101, 1775 (Djedda; 

 Lohaja).— Bloch, Naturg. ausland. Fische, vol. 1, p. 41, pi. (26) 120, 1785 

 (Europe). — Bonnateebe, Ta.bleau encyclop. Ichth., p. 11, pi. 8, fig. 24, 1788 

 (Atlantic Ocean).— LAc:fip£DE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 1, p. 286, 1798 (North 

 Atlantic; Africa) ; vol. 4, p. 684, 1802. 



Pristis granulosa Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 352, 1801 [type locality: 

 Havana (on Parra)]. 



Pristis mississippiensis Rafinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, p. 80, 1820 (type locality : 

 Lovp^er Mississippi). 



Pristis megalodon Dum£eil, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 476, pi. 9, fig. 4, 

 1865 (no locality). 



Pristis acutirostris Dum^eil, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 479, 1865 (type 

 locality: Antilles). 



Pristis occa Dum^ril, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 479, 1865 (no locality). 



Pristis leptodon Dum6eil, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 480, 1865 (type locality : 

 Red Sea). 



Pristis brevirostris Dumeeh,, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 480, 1865 (type 

 locality: Reunion). 



Pristis waermanni Fischer, Jahrb. Hamburg, vol. 1, p. 39, 1884 (type locality : 

 West Africa). 



Pristis annandalci Chaudhitei, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 2, p. 391, figs., 1908 

 (Burma). — Annandale, Mem. Indian Mus., vol. 2, p. 8, pi. 5, fig. 4, 1909 

 (type). 



Rostrum width basally 7 in its length, serrae 31 + 29, closer forward ; 

 eye 2% in interorbital ; mouth width 6i/^ in head, slightly less than 

 interorbital ; teeth 68 above, 70 below, in pavement; interorbital 

 slightly convex medially. Spiracles and nostrils oblique. 



Scales with simple ovoid crowns, larger ending in point behind. 



First dorsal begins opposite first third of ventral base, equals sec- 

 ond dorsal, which inserted little nearer subcaudal origin than hind 



